Outer space is an extreme place, that's why it's not surprising that astronauts need some time to recover after the return to ...

Alexandra Whitmire, fifty, works at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where she studies how prolonged isolation and confinement ...

From cosmic radiation to crushing isolation, the journey to Mars presents a web of interlinked dangers. NASA’s Human Research ...

An astronaut who abandoned in space for almost a full year has told how the intense isolation took a terrible toll on him. Sergei Krikalev was branded 'the last Soviet' after spending an ...

Among other fears, scientists worried that the astronauts might return to Earth ... America's newest heroes had to struggle into biological isolation suits tossed through the hatch after splashdown.

An astronaut who was abandoned in space for 311 days told of how the intense isolation took a terrible toll on him. Sergei Krikalev was dubbed 'the last Soviet' after spending an unintended 10 ...

Astronaut Ron Garan sleeps in his sleeping bag on the International Space Station in 2008. (NASA) In March, two NASA astronauts finally returned to Earth after an eight-day mission devolved into a ...

Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Sunday ...