His oxygen pack contains breathing air for seven and a half hours His space suit will have liters of water to quench his thirst The jet pack will carry 5 pounds of fuel to fly back to his parent spacecraft He would have died and drifted off into space unless someone else had already rescued…
Raja Chari, an Indian-born astronaut who arrived at the space station last year, has completed his first spacewalk. Raja Chari spent 6.5 hours outside the space station as part of a special mission. The mission was to upgrade the International Space Station, which has been extended to 2030. Raja was accompanied by flight engineer Kayla…
February 7, 1984. Everyone in NASA’s mission control room is out of breath – out of control, Bruce Macandoules walks into space! This is the first time in history that a self-designed MMU control system has been used for space travel. Realizing that his wife Bernice, who was in the control room, was upset, Macandoules…
