An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years later on Thursday. NASA’s Anne McClain emerged from the International Space Station alongside Nichole Ayers. Both military officers and pilots, they launched to the orbiting lab in March to replace NASA’s two stuck…
Person to Person: Norah O’Donnell interviews astronaut Peggy Whitson – CBS News Watch CBS News In this episode of “Person to Person with Norah O’Donnell,” O’Donnell speaks with astronaut Peggy Whitson about the future of commercial space flight, her latest mission with Axiom Space, and how she overcame rejection from NASA to become America’s most…
On the eve of his 70th birthday, Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active-duty astronaut, and two cosmonaut crewmates undocked from the International Space Station Saturday and geared up for a fiery overnight plunge back to Earth to close out a 220-day expedition. Pettit, Soyuz MS-26/72S commander Alexey Ovchinin and flight engineer Ivan Vagner undocked from the…
Being weightless affects everything from the way food tastes to getting a good night’s sleep. Here’s what it’s like to spend months in space. Ask any astronaut who has spent extended periods in the International Space Station what the most challenging part was, and they will probably say missing friends and family. While there are…
Note to Self: Astronaut Peggy Whitson – CBS News Watch CBS News Record-setting NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson returned from the International Space Station in September after a 288-day mission. She has spent more time in space than any other American. While in orbit, the 57-year-old biochemist started writing a letter to her 9-year-old self. She…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Monday that they hold themselves partly responsible for what went wrong on their space sprint-turned-marathon and would fly on Boeing’s Starliner again. SpaceX recently ferried the duo home after more than nine months at the International Space Station, filling in for…
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, whose planned eight-day Starliner test flight turned into a nine-and-a-half-month stay stuck aboard the International Space Station, are speaking out today at a news conference for the first time since returning to Earth almost two weeks ago. They are still adapting to Earth’s gravity after splashing down aboard a SpaceX…
The first details of C949, a supersonic airliner project, have been quietly unveiled by Chinese state-owned aerospace giant Comac, signalling its ambitions to dominate the skies with the radical new jet that could redefine global air travel. In a recent academic paper, Comac engineers revealed the blueprint of a 1.6-Mach airliner designed to fly further…
A period of peak magnetic storms on the sun could lead to another show of northern lights on Earth on Saturday and Sunday, forecasters say. Make sure you don’t miss them. Unforgettable northern lights display recorded before lunar eclipse Spectators took stunning videos of a green aurora glowing overhead in Fairbanks, Alaska. Anybody interested in…
Home to astronauts conducting experiments as they orbit around the Earth, the International Space Station is almost at the end of its lifespan. And when the huge project, which was first launched in 1998, is finally sent tumbling back to Earth by Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a spectacular splashdown, it’s time for another billionaire to…