Astronauts working on the ISS usually get 8 hours of sleep after a 16-hour work day. They also get a sleep mask and earplugs ...

The International Space Station (ISS), orbiting about 400 kilometres above Earth ... astronauts face physical and mental ...

The following is a transcript of the conversation between astronauts while this image was taken: 004:38:12 McDivitt: Okay. Ed, just free-float around. Right now we’re pointing just about straight down ...

So is it true that you can't burp in space? The answer is messier than you might expect. You can't burp in microgravity the way you would on Earth, experts told Live Science. That's because, unlike ...

which takes space tourists to 62 miles above Earth's surface — to the Kármán line, which is the internationally recognized boundary between space and our planet. The rocket is named after the NASA ...

Life on the International Space Station isn't always easy. There's not a lot of room, no showers, and no laundry. Photos show how astronauts live.

The journalist and helicopter pilot rode Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, which takes space tourists to 62 miles above Earth's surface ... is named after the NASA astronaut Alan Shepard ...

Kazahkstan was chosen, rather than Russia, because the fast-moving capsule can be buffeted as it returns back into Earth’s ... Russia. Up above us, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi is now ...

Mike Moses — who earned a Florida Tech master’s degree in space sciences in 1991 — delivered a spring commencement speech on the Melbourne campus.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim can add going to ... And earlier this week, Kim went on his first spaceflight to the ISS, floating 250 miles above Earth. The 41-year-old made the 262-mile journey to ...

noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between 100 - 1,200 miles (160 - 2,000 km) above our ...

They will not, however, be classed as astronauts by the Federal Aviation ... Perry said she felt like she should perform while floating above the Earth, which would make her the first artist ...