Another challenge for the mission will be keeping the astronauts healthy in both body and mind.
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It's also where the astronauts who went to the moon walked out before their missions.
Additionally, the solar minimum during that time will also limit the radiation exposure to the astronauts.
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Mr Nelson's book contains compelling portraits of the astronauts: the American heroes of the age.
They have to make the call, and the astronauts are merely bystanders at that point.
After a visual inspection showed nothing wrong, mission managers told the astronauts to call it a day.
The astronauts wore them uninflated, and they were just a backup in case the capsule lost pressure.
The astronauts get asked one question all the time: How do you go the bathroom in space?
The astronauts have done more than 1, 500 docking simulations on the ground to ensure a successful manual docking.
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But while the astronauts get a well-earned rest, the technical teams have a lot of work to do.
The astronauts, climbing hand over hand along the face of the Space Station, worked their way to the motor.
Along the way the astronauts would be bombarded by cosmic radiation and risk being baked by unpredictable solar flares.
Dragon will be loaded with a payload of 1200 pounds, including supplies for the astronauts, equipment, and scientific experiments.
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According to Space.com, the astronauts on board the International Space Station will be watching the game this year.
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The astronauts died February 1 when Columbia disintegrated over east Texas, just minutes before it was to land in Florida.
But, watched by an estimated 500m people on television, the astronauts who stepped onto the moon's pockmarked surface were American.
The astronauts actually beamed higher-quality footage back to Earth -seen by a small number of people at three tracking stations.
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We knew the names of the astronauts, we knew their families they were the reality TV stars of their era.
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While at the station, the astronauts will increase the station's living space with room for six instead of the current three.
After replacing the pump, it was powered on, and both the astronauts and Mission Control verified that there was no more leaking.
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The British Interplanetary Society is making the award to recognise the astronauts' achievements but also to further the case for human spaceflight.
The Robonaut is designed to perform maintenance tasks aboard the space station to free up the Astronauts for more important research tasks.
" O'Keefe then met with family members of the astronauts, and he said the president called them to offer the "deepest national regrets.
The astronauts on board the station will open the hatch to Dragon tomorrow, and will start unloading the 2, 300 pounds of cargo within.
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The astronauts pointed a camera to show the view out their window, the moon's gray craters and mountains passing by around 70 miles below.
This is something that is less of a problem than it was, because the astronauts usually follow fairly intense exercise regimens while in space.
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Later this week, the astronauts will undock and redock the Shenzhou 9 from the space module, to verify their their systems are still functional.
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The astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery today used a computer simulator to practice landing in preparation for their planned return to Earth tomorrow.
Here this morning with the families of the astronauts and their friends started out as a pretty happy morning, awaiting the landing of STS-107.
"Our design goal would be to make the astronauts, when they're doing geology, look like a geologist on the surface of the Earth, " Lutz says.
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