Friday 25 June, 2021
The 17-year-old are the first Irish students to have had their computer experiment for the International Space Station accepted.
A Nasa astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Mission Control said it would need to work on “kindergarten skills” after some painted lines were slightly off.
The three men will receive 15 weeks of training in advance of the flight next January.
The four astronauts aboard the Dragon capsule will remain at the ISS for six months.
The flight to the space station – 27.5 hours door to door – should be entirely automated.
Nasa said that the two Russians and one American on board were awakened late on Monday.
Docking took place at 3.16pm Irish time and the astronauts entered some three hours later.
A crew member said “the Earth still looks just as stunning as always” from above during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Christina Koch also made history as one half of the first-ever all-woman spacewalk.
There have been 227 spacewalkers since the first spacewalk in 1965 and all of them have included a male.
NASA astronaut Anne McClain has admitted to accessing her ex-partner’s bank account from the International Space Station.
Private astronauts may soon be able to visit the ISS for $35,000 a night.
Nasa said it does its best to anticipate the spacesuit sizes, but that a person’s body may change when they’re in orbit.
The announcement was met with applause at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The rocket landed in Kazakhstan.
The supply capsule launched on Monday from Florida.
His Russian captain suspected that 9cm was “too much elongation”. He was right.
Peggy and two of her colleagues landed in Kazakhstan this morning.
It was unclear what caused the MDM to fail.
An Irish project was selected by the ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! (FYS) programme.
The International Space Station’s commander surpassed the record of 534 days, two hours and 48 minutes for most accumulated time in space.
The earliest a relaunch can be attempted is tomorrow morning.
In fairness to him, he got his wish in the end.
Tim Peake was the first astronaut to fly to space under the UK banner in 25 years.
The blue skies made it easy to see from the International Space Station.
It’s hump day – give yourself a little breather…
Astronaut Tim Peake tweeted the timelapse from ISS.
Scott Kelly is in the final stretch of a year-long mission on the ISS, which orbits Earth every 92.91 minutes.
The scientists involved had some fairly curt responses for the journalists involved.
The timelapse was taken during a sunrise.
Back to the drawing board for Elon Musk’s company.
My inner space nerd was delighted to be accepted onto the European Space Agency’s workshop for primary school teachers.
It was a bit of an emergency situation.
We’re being watched from above right now.
Video has emerged of it spinning out of control.
The company isn’t giving up hope.
The Space X rocket will resupply the space station, but it needs to catch it first.
The pair are taking part in a mission run by NASA.
