astronauts

TECH

Astronauts on ISS spot “space fireflies”

NASA astronaut Don Pettit recently shared a captivating video from the International Space Station (ISS) on the social media platform X. The footage shows tiny flickering lights dancing above Earth’s horizon, which Pettit poetically referred to as “cosmic fireflies.” However, these lights are not a natural phenomenon but the reflection of sunlight off SpaceX’s Starlink […]

SPORT

After 8 months in space, astronauts return to earth

The mission marked SpaceX’s longest human spaceflight to date. On Friday, three American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth after nearly eight months on the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the crew splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida after a 30-hour journey. The […]

WORLD

Non-professional astronauts enter open space for the first time

SpaceX’s mission aims to test Elon Musk’s first space suits designed for the vacuum of space. More than 1.2 million users on the social media platform X tuned in on Thursday to watch the historic first spacewalk by non-professional astronauts. The event was reported by AFP, citing SpaceX. Jared Isaacman was the first to venture […]