Five months into his fourth stay aboard the International Space Station, veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke sat down for dinner. It was the night before a routine spacewalk, but the evening took an ...
Fincke’s fellow astronauts and a series of emergency protocols kept him safe, but NASA still made an unprecedented move: The agency cut short the SpaceX Crew-11 mission, returning Fincke and three of ...
NASA has spent over half a century making sure that no human ever floats off into space. Various thruster systems have been developed to help astronauts save themselves in the event of an emergency.