For astronauts who spend months at a time working on the International Space Station (ISS), there's good news. While their bodies and brains are affected by radiation, altered gravity, challenging ...
Floating in space can slow you down — not just physically, but mentally as well. Scientists studied how 25 astronauts who lived an average of six month on the International Space Station (ISS) ...
Today’s high-tech spacesuit materials are a far cry from the cotton and rubber used by early high-altitude pilots. This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Previously, scientists found evidence that a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station (ISS) can temporarily slow an astronaut’s cognitive performance, but shouldn’t create ...
The report comes after NASA reassured the public that the astronauts are in good health, despite buzz over Suni Williams appearing thin. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop ...