Swedish-American astronaut Jessica Meir held a live conversation on Friday evening from the International Space Station ISS with Sweden's space minister and other participants.
Jessica Meir has been in space for one hundred days. Part of the mission is to study how the human body is affected by microgravity. The answers will be used for future space travel and research on cancer and blood diseases. During the conversation Meir said in Swedish:
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A known air leak in the Russian section of the International Space Station ISS prompted a precautionary measure on Friday, with four astronauts seeking shelter in a Crew Dragon capsule.
Following their successful launch, NASA's Artemis II astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft resolved a jammed toilet fan and Microsoft Outlook software glitches during the initial phase of their 10-day lunar orbit mission. The crew—Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialists Jeremy Hansen and Christina Koch—marks historic firsts: Glover as the first Black astronaut, Koch the first woman, and Hansen the first Canadian to venture toward the moon.
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Quattro astronauti sono diretti verso la Luna per la prima volta in oltre 50 anni. L'equipaggio è partito alle 18:35 ora locale da Cape Canaveral, in Florida, a bordo della capsula Orion in cima allo Space Launch System. La missione si basa su Artemis 1 e segna una pietra miliare per le donne e gli astronauti non bianchi.
On May 11, the Tianzhou 10 cargo spacecraft successfully launched, carrying human embryo models into space. This marks the world's first in situ experiment exploring how microgravity and cosmic radiation affect early human development.
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La navicella Orion della missione Artemis 2 ha completato la manovra finale prima del rientro atmosferico, la fase più critica del viaggio. Gli astronauti Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch e Jeremy Hansen affronteranno una discesa di 13 minuti a oltre 40.000 km/h e temperature superiori ai 2.500 gradi, con un ammaraggio previsto al largo di San Diego.
Lai Ka-ying blasted off on Sunday evening aboard Shenzhou-23 as China's first female payload specialist. The crew reached the Tiangong space station early Monday.
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Nasa's Artemis 2 Orion capsule launched successfully from Kennedy Space Center with four astronauts heading to the Moon on a 400,000-kilometer journey. The rocket reached supersonic speed and is now traveling at 27,000 km/h. The automated launch control system has taken over.