Tag Archives: NASA

Adapting to a New Environment – Space

NASA astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, left, and Walter M. “Wally” Schirra climb aboard their Gemini VI spacecraft for the Oct. 25, 1965, launch attempt.

As the year 1965 ended, astronauts Jim Lovell and Frank Borman were proving that human beings could adapt to the environment of space, having lived there for almost two weeks before successfully returning home in this episode of the Terranauts podcast.

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Canadarm2 Plays a Role in Investigating Mystery Leak of Two Russian Spacecraft Attached to the ISS

Image of hole on the Soyuz 22. Credit: Roscosmos.

Canada is playing a small but critical role in understanding a problem on the International Space Station (ISS). The Canadarm2 has been used to take photos of the mysterious leaks on the Soyuz 22 and Progress 82 spacecraft, helping Roscosmos and others to understand and explain what happened. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, …

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Terranauts – Making Lemonade

Gemini VI Views Gemini VII

When we left the Gemini program in the last this episode of the Terranauts podcast, President Lyndon B Johnson was just stepping up the microphone at his ranch in Texas to explain how NASA was going to respond to the failure of Gemini 6 barely 72 hours previously.

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