astronauts
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Watch Live as Sultan Al Neyadi Becomes First Arab Astronaut to Perform a Spacewalk
Two astronauts are gearing up for a nearly seven-hour-long spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, with one of them set to make history as the first Arab astronaut to take on the extravehicular activity.
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Russian Cosmonaut Hits Colleague With Car Weeks After Coming Back to Earth
Experienced Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, who had just recently spent 195 days orbiting Earth, accidentally hit a colleague with his car outside the Roscosmos training centre earlier this week, according to an official statement from the Russian space agency.
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NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly to Russia: ‘Your Space Program Won’t Be Worth a Damn’
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is straining the U.S.-Russia International Space Station partnership seemingly to a breaking point. Now, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos director general Dmitry Rogozin are duking it out in what is an unusually terse Twitter battle.
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ISS Mishap a Sign That NASA’s Safety Culture Is Slipping, Warns Former Mission Controller
Disaster nearly struck the International Space Station last week when a Russian module unexpectedly fired its thrusters shortly after docking. A retired space engineer is now sounding the alarm, saying NASA’s safety culture is showing signs of decay and that an independent investigation is necessary.