Menstrual Cups Passed a Brutal Space Test. They Could Finally Fix a Major Problem for Many Astronauts
Reusable menstrual cups pass first test in space-like flight conditions.
Tag: astronauts
Remembering Félicette: The first cat in space
Celebrating the memory of the world's first and only astrocat.
NASA engineered a cup to drink coffee in zero gravity
Space is space... but coffee is coffee.
Zero gravity, equal opportunity: How disabled astronauts are rewriting the rules in space
Individuals with disabilities can enrich astronaut teams and herald a more inclusive future in space exploration
Space flight seems to be causing one specific mutation in the blood of astronauts
While not obviously dangerous, we should still monitor for this mutation.
Martian outposts could be made with astronaut’s blood, sweat, and pee — quite literally
Their blood, tears, and sweat contain useful chemicals for developing construction materials.
The European Space Agency is hiring for the first time in 11 years
I hear travelling to faraway places is a perk of the job.
Space doesn’t make for a good sleeping spot, a new paper reports
Astronauts can see an almost 20% drop in sleep efficiency while off-world.
More than 12,000 Americans want to become NASA astronauts for the Artemis mission
It's the second-highest number of applications the agency ever received for a single mission.
Urine, the future material to build new bases at the moon
Urea could help build hardier, sturdier bases in space.
NASA requests $1 billion in funding for Artemis mission to take man back to the moon by 2024
The original timeline was pushed forward four years by the Trump Administration -- and now NASA needs the bucks to ...
Ellen Ochoa and Michael Foale join the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
The best of the best.
NASA is designing small away-from-home-ecosystems to make space exploration sustainable
Recycle everything!!!
NASA establishes first Space Technology Research Institutes to make Mars a self-sufficient colony
"Producing > packing" -- NASA.
Wearing NASA’s new Starliner space suit is reason enough to become an astronaut
Guaranteed to maintain awesomeness even at 0 atm.
Taking a glance at space food
Astronauts definitely don't have it easy; preparing and training for most of your life, to go on a mission that ...
