Musk also talked about the safety of humans inside the spacecraft. He further added, “Crew safety is absolutely paramount and this mission carries more risk than usual, as it will be the furthest humans have traveled from Earth since Apollo and the first commercial spacewalk!” The ambitious Polaris Dawn project, which will see Elon Musk-led […]
Dubai: The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced that Sultan AlNeyadi will become the first Arab astronaut to undertake a spacewalk during Expedition 69 on the International Space Station (ISS). Scheduled for April 28, the UAE will become the 10th country to perform a spacewalk on the ISS. AlNeyadi will be part of the […]
This day in history we feature Alexei Leonov. The first person to walk in space, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes on this day in 1965. Trivia – Alexei Leonov Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the […]
This day in history we feature Zhai Zhigang. He is a Chinese astronaut who performed China’s first spacewalk on this day in 2008. Trivia – Zhai Zhigang Zhai was born in Longjiang County, Heilongjiang Province. He enrolled at the PLA Air Force Aviation University and studied to be a fighter pilot and then as a […]
