"The nice thing about sleeping in space is that just about anywhere can be your bedroom," said NASA spokesman Dan Huot. And that leaves two others without beds - but that's not a problem. Two astronauts will have to sleep in the docked SpaceX capsules. When the four new crew members arrive, they'll join seven already on board. NASA has to get creative for those rare times when there are more people than beds. The International Space Station might be bigger than a football field, but it's equipped with just seven permanent sleeping pods, each about the size of a phone booth. But with 11 people soon to be aboard, there aren't enough places for them all to sleep. The AP is solely responsible for all content.The International Space Station is larger than a football field. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. Clean oceans, clean space! It’s up to all of us.” We really need to think about our environmental impact on Earth and in space. “Sadly, this is not the only bag I filled. “I’ve been relaxing during my quarantine by collecting rubbish on the beach,” he wrote. More recently, two Russian cosmonauts were replaced a couple months before their 2020 launch to the space station, after one of them suffered an eye injury.Įarlier Monday afternoon, Maurer tweeted a photo of himself on the beach at Kennedy Space Center, holding a large garbage bag. He never came down with measles, and later joined the herculean effort in Houston to save his colleagues from their aborted moon mission. And in 1970, an astronaut was yanked from Apollo 13 shortly before launch after being exposed to German measles. In 1990, a shuttle launch was delayed when the flight’s commander came down with a cold. NASA prefers launching the new crew before bringing back the old one so they can have a face-to-face handover, but is considering “all options” in light of the latest delay. Once on their way, Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron and the European Space Agency’s Matthias Maurer will move into the space station for six months, replacing four astronauts who have been living up there since April. astronauts - who range in age from 34 to 61 - have been quarantined for two weeks as usual before a spaceflight. They described it as a “minor medical issue” and said it is unrelated to COVID-19. Officials would not say which astronaut is affected.
flight has been delayed by a crew member’s health. It’s the first time in decades that a U.S.
Liftoff had been scheduled for this past Sunday, but bad weather offshore bumped it to Wednesday. NASA said the launch is now off until Saturday night at the earliest. (AP) - A medical issue has sidelined one of four astronauts assigned to SpaceX’s upcoming flight to the International Space Station and delayed the launch, officials said Monday.
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