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How Do Astronauts Choose The Best Color For Their Spacesuits?
The moment you think about astronauts, what comes to your mind would probably be a picture of an astronaut in a white spacesuit experiencing weightlessness in the vast expanse of space. Or perhaps you don't imagine a white astronaut. You...
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We Don’t Know Why Astronauts Get Motion Sick
A majority of modern astronauts experience any one of a suite of symptoms scientists collectively call Space Motion Sickness, or SMS. But despite knowing about it for nearly as long as humans have gone into space, we still don't know...
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Astronauts' Arch-Enemy: Dust
For astronauts, dust is no joke. On the moon and Mars, dust isn't at all like the stuff under your bed. It can be poisonous, corrosive, even made of razor-sharp glass. So future astronauts are going to need more than a dust buster to get...
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Space Suits: Protecting Astronauts and Exploring the Final Frontier
This video explains why astronauts wear space suits when working outside the space station, highlighting the protection they provide from various space hazards like micrometeorites, temperature changes, radiation, and lack of oxygen. It...
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Exploring the Marvels of the Space Suit
The space suit is a technological and engineering innovation that allows astronauts to exit the spacecraft while in outer space. Learn about all the different features of this machine.
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NASA's next-generation space suit
NASA has published details of its Prototype Z-1 space suit. The new Z-1 spacesuit features a large port in the back that astronauts can use to enter the suit from a vehicle. The port can also be used to dock the suit to a shuttle, rover...
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Space Facts II - The History Of Space Suits
Space Facts II puts viewers on the forefront of space exploration, examining its role on Earth in fighting forest fires, controlling diseases (such as diabetes), combating air pollution and mapping solar and lunar cycles. This video...
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NASA's Curious Universe: The Astronaut Training Pool
Before astronauts head to space, they have to dive into the Neutral Buoyancy Lab. Take a swim in NASA's underwater training ground with astronaut Nick Hague.
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NASA unveils the latest design of Z-2 space suit
NASA has finalized the design of the latest space suit Z-2, a second-generation prototype of a series which it hopes will one day be worn by astronauts on Mars.
Kids Learning Videos
Astronauts! Fun Astronaut Facts for Preschoolers and Toddlers
Did you know the word astronaut comes from Greek words meaning "star sailor"? Kids can learn all about space travelers in this video while watching real video of space shuttles, NASA, and real astronauts in space!
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Neil Armstrong's Space Suit
The story of the A7L Space Suit worn by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 17, Astronaut Training Small Steps, Giant Leaps
NASA Astronaut Candidate Woody Hoburg discusses his experiences as the 2017 NASA Astronaut Class approaches the two-year mark of extensive training for space travel.
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Gravity Assist: Astronauts Go Back to Moon School, with Kelsey Young
Besides learning how to live in space, astronauts training for Artemis missions to the Moon will need to become experts in geology, so they know what to look for when they're scoping out rocks and other features. Kelsey Young of NASA's...
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Hubble Servicing Mission 1: From the Astronauts' Perspective
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s first servicing mission, astronauts Kathryn Thornton and Jeffrey Hoffman told the story of that successful, groundbreaking mission during a livestream event from...
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On a Mission: Season Three, Episode 1: An Astronaut’s View of Earth
You might think you know Earth, but astronaut’s views from outer space help us see our world in a whole new light.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: Astronaut Health
Dr. Natacha Chough, Flight Surgeon, talks about what flight surgeons do and how they work with astronauts to monitor their health during spaceflight. She reveals health concerns that are unique to the space environment. HWHAP Episode 22.
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Russian debris cloud forces NASA to postpone spacewalk
A Russian missile test blew up a satellite, creating a cloud of space debris, and any piece of that cloud can puncture an astronaut’s suit or damage the International Space Station.
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NASA Prepares to Explore Moon: Spacesuits, Tools
Preparing to explore the surface of the Moon goes well beyond designing and building safe spacecraft and spacesuits. NASA also has to ensure the surface vehicles and suits have the mobility required to do science, and that astronauts...
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Spacewalk: Exploring the Depths of Space
A spacewalk (or extravehicular activity) is the term used to describe movement of astronauts outside the spacecraft. Learn about the types of spacewalks astronauts engage in and the training they go through to prepare.
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Hubble Tool Time Episode 3: Servicing Mission 2
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...
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The Sokol Space Suit: Helen Sharman on Being In Space
A space suit is a carefully engineered cocoon, designed to protect an astronaut from the perils of the abyss. Helen Sharman walks us through the suit she trusted with her life when she went into space. Day 6 of our advent calendar, A...
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How I overcame disability to become a NASA astronaut | Leland Melvin
- Leland Melvin was told he'd never be an astronaut after he lost all his hearing. - He got a chance to fly to space and honor the legacy of his friends after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. - Leland worked on building the space...
World Science Festival
Astronaut Diary: Life in Space
Astronauts who've lived on the International Space Station and “walked” in space tell all: what it's like to ride on a space ship, and to eat, sleep, exercise, and even do science—in space. Hear firsthand from the world’s most intrepid...
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There's a Limit to the Comfort Level of NASA Space Suits
The space suits used by the astronauts on Gemini 7, known as grasshopper suits, were designed for comfort. But after two weeks inside them, that was the last thing on the crew’s minds. From the Series: Apollo's Moonshot: Triumph and...