The Dragon spacecraft bears a motorized system to help the astronauts ... Just this summer, NASA called off a spacewalk before the astronauts even left the ISS’s airlock, when Tracy Dyson ...

Polaris Dawn will also feature a new communication system using ... Dragon's lack of an airlock means all four Polaris Dawn astronauts will don their spacesuits during the spacewalk.

For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include the first-ever private spacewalk. Not only would this be the first time anyone ...

While terrifying, there's an overlooked NASA spacewalk which looks equally terrifying to untrained Earth-dwellers. In 1984, ...

Prokopyev and Petelin will supervise the operation of the robotic arm, and as soon as the transfer is over, they will dock the airlock to the Nauka module. The spacewalk is scheduled to last six ...

On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk, tethered to the ... he couldn’t fit back through the spaceship airlock. “It had become a dangerous situation.

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...

[Photo/Xinhua] The Shenzhou XIX mission crew members have conducted their third spacewalk outside the Tiangong space station, completing several assignments and floating for seven hours ...

The lack of atmospheric pressure in space had caused the Soviet’s spacesuit to inflate and become stiff – meaning he couldn’t fit back through the spaceship airlock. “It had become a ...