Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA discussed the status of his five and a half month mission on the orbital laboratory with the ABC News “Nightline” program during an in-flight interview July 31. Wiseman, who has garnered international attention for his enthusiastic involvement in social media, arrived on the station in late May and will remain in orbit until November, when he returns to Earth in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Tag: Expedition 40
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NASA Space Station Commander Discusses Life And Work Floating In Space with Denver Media
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA discussed life and research on the orbital outpost during an in-flight interview July 17 with KDVR-TV in Denver. Swanson, who is a native of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, arrived on the station in late March, became station commander in May and will remain in orbit until mid-September when he will return to Earth in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
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Space gooooooaaaal
In true World Cup spirit ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Steve Swanson play a friendly game of football, celebrating their goals as only they can while living in the International Space Station.
Recorded during their time-off over the weekend the astronaut-footballers enjoyed some weightless football fun.
During Alexander’s six-month Blue Dot mission on the Space Station he will run over 100 experiments that cannot be done anywhere else on Earth – just like these celebrations.
Credit: NASA
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NASA astronaut discusses life in space
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA talked with the CBS Radio Network and the ABC Digital Network about the daily activities he’s involved in on the orbital laboratory, during a pair of in-flight interviews May 27. Swanson and his two Russian crewmates will welcome three new crew mates on May 29.
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Training for Blue Dot
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst recounts his training for his Blue Dot mission to the International Space Station in May 2014. Alexander spent over four years learning science, survival techniques, new languages, robotic operations and Space Station systems to prepare for his mission.
Alexander discusses basic training, overseeing docking of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle space freighter, spacewalk training in swimming pools, the merits of US and Russian spacesuits and the scientific experiments he will conduct.
Alexander will spend six months on the Space Station performing experiments and maintaining the weightless laboratory. He is part of Expedition 40/41 to be launched May 2014 on a Soyuz spacecraft with cosmonaut commander Maxim Surayev and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman.