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Research on the medical emergencies that may occur in space include fatal and nonfatal arrhythmia, heart attacks, cardiac arrests, embolisms, massive hemorrhages, renal stone formations, fatal and non-fatal infections, and thrombotic complications. Of these conditions, only arrhythmia, renal colics, and infections have occurred in the history ...
The crew of Soyuz 11 died after undocking from space station Salyut 1 after a three-week stay. A cabin vent valve construction defect caused it to open at service module separation. The recovery team found the crew dead. These three are, as of 2024, the only human fatalities in space (above 100 kilometers (330,000 ft)). [4] [5]
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have ...
However, there was a second option, which NASA ultimately decided to go with: send the astronauts back home via SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which will depart from the station in February 2025. Crew ...
In the meantime, the astronauts have spent their extended stay working alongside the crew of Expedition 71, performing scientific research and helping to do mainteance on the space station, NASA said.
Williams became the first person to run a marathon from the space station on April 16, 2007. After launch, Williams arranged to donate her ponytail to Locks of Love. Fellow astronaut Joan Higginbotham cut her hair aboard the International Space Station and it was brought back to Earth by the STS-116 crew. [16]
To make room for Wilmore and Williams, NASA said Wednesday it could bump two of the four astronauts due to launch to the space station next month with SpaceX. The empty seats would be reserved for ...
Concept for NASA Design Reference Mission Architecture 5.0 (2009). Mars to Stay missions propose that astronauts sent to Mars for the first time should intend to remain there. . Unused emergency return vehicles would be recycled into settlement construction as soon as the habitability of Mars becomes evident to the initial pionee