Is an astronaut still an astronaut when they are n’t in space ? This is a right week to excogitate the query , as they ’re teem in , on , over , and under the Earth with landing , launches , cave pleasure trip , and even living under the ocean .
Left : Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev is greeted on his return to Earth with his request watermelon . Image credit : NASA . Middle : Astronaut Luca Parmitano rack through a narrow-minded crevasse . figure credit : ESA / V.Crobu . Right : Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is out of doors looking in . figure of speech credit : NASA / Jeremy Hansen
AsMagalie Renaud compactly pointed out , geographic expedition takes many forms . From below the sea , within the Earth , and far above in the insensate reaches of distance , spaceman are everywhere , and all of them are share their discoveries with us . By the numbers , three astronauts are living in a fragile plate of air in the cold of quad , while three others just safely return to earth and yet another three are preparing to blast off in the days to come . Meanwhile , an astronaut trio is live in a tropical paradise below the wave , practicing slow movements , blind drunk quarter , and remote bosses while staying on Earth . While one astronaut latterly complete a stint of fieldwork investigating meteor wallop lake , a final six spaceman initiate a subterranean geographic expedition of live in uttermost environment .
Crew Change for the Space Station
Descent of the Soyuz capsule contain homeward - bound astronauts . Image credit : Roscosmos
Their six month check on the place over , Steve Swanson , Alexander Skvortsov , and Oleg Artemyev safely returned to Earth today , floating down through fluffy cloud like something out of a Pixar film . With Skvortsov as the Soyuz Commander , they put down safely near Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan .
Soyuz leave the infinite post ( credit : NASA / Alexander Gerst ) and reentering the Earth ’s standard atmosphere in a testicle of flame ( recognition : NASA / Reid Wiseman).Gerst was pleased to see the parachute with swing ejector seat soon after .
Soyuz sailing over tidy swarm - row . Image cite : NASA / Alexander Gerst
This Expedition had a far less dusty land thanthe last mass of homecoming astronauts . look-alike credit : NASA / Bill Ingalls
Oleg Artemyev peers out of the capsule minute after landing . mental image credit : NASA / Bill Ingalls
land logistics complete , land support force await their sundown helicopter ride . Image credit rating : NASA / Bill Ingalls
Aquanauts Under The Sea
The skin-diver of Neemo 19 . Image credit : NASA
NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations(NEEMO ) are missions where cosmonaut live , oeuvre , and read on the sea floor at the Aquarius Reef Base .
Water Bearer is 19 meter below the surface , some 10 kilometers off the coast of Key Largo , Florida . The delegacy are meant to test out activity under extreme conditions before render them in space , although they ’re occasionallydisrupted by surface events like hurricanes .
The view outside his window is reminding Jeremy of Reid Wiseman’smost recentvine documentinglightning from blank . trope recognition : NASA / Jeremy R. Hansen
The Aquarius Reef Base . Image quotation : NASA / Jeremy R. Hansen
ForNEEMO 19 , the aquanauts are spending a week below the waves testing out the European Space Agency ’s distant - mentoring program . The foreign mission Commander is NASA ’s Randy Bresnik , with the Canadian Space Agency ’s Jeremy Hansen and the European Space Agency ’s Andreas Mogensen joining him below the waves . Their Head of Extravehicular Activity Training , Hervé Stevenin , is joining them in their watery home . ( Thanks for the discipline , Hervé ! ) Conversations between Mission Control and the aquanauts have a five - minute communications wait to better reflect what it ’d be like for astronauts on Mars .
drill working with drill cores with a Mars - appropriate sentence - hold . Image mention : NASA
If Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen ’s photo aggregation is an accurate reflection of how life is below the waves , along with their formal activities the house physician of Reef Base pass a lot of timewatchingfish .
Spelunking for Spaceflight
Six cosmonaut are hidden in the mountains of Italy , spending two hebdomad in a remote environment space post model . They ’ll be using the same procedure and technology used on the tangible International Space Station , helping them get conversant with the lifestyle while safely on Earth .
Cavenauts preparing for their two - hebdomad subterranean charge . paradigm credit : ESA
The cavenauts this yr include ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin , who previously worked together on the International Space Station , NASA astronaut Mike Fossum , a Station commandant and stager of seven spacewalks , and cub Russian Sergey Kud - Sverchkov and American Scott Tingle .
Cavenauts navigating a part - inundate cave . look-alike credit : ESAV.Crobu
Thefirst dayinvolved lessons incave hemipteran , use with low - igniter photography , and a swimming - hike through a water - cave .
Getting Dirty with Fieldwork
Northern lights above the Clearwater camp site . look-alike credit : Adam Brody Coulter
In all the astronaut explorations , I forgotthat the Canadian Space Agency retrieved astronaut David Saint - Jacques last week .
Northern lights above the Clearwater Lake field site . Image reference : Adam Brody Coulter
Saint - Jacques chase along with a enquiry grouping from Western University forgeology fieldwork in northern Canada . While helping them investigate encroachment volcanic crater lake in northern Quebec , they teach him about geologic fieldwork .
Strategizing for the next day ’s fieldwork . Image credit : David Saint - Jacques
Left : Saint - Jacques professional the fundamental tools of fieldwork : a rock hammer and a field of battle lid . Middle : Geologists scampering around an outcrop . right field : drill magnetic core sample distribution .
Saint - Jacques was desolate on a petite outcrop - island with his newly - acquired rock music malleus for “ isolation training . ” Image reference : Gordon Osinski
Astronaut David Saint - Jacques and professor Gordon Osinski engaging in a fierce battle with encroachment - melt swords . Image credit : David Saint - Jacques
Astronauts in Space
After seeing all the other place astronaut are search , it feels somehow necessary to point out that they ’re also in space !
The moon deform as it sets behind the Earth ’s thick atmosphere . Image credit rating : NASA / Alexander Gerst
Wiseman(left ) andGerst(right ) Learning about mobile dynamic with the Capillary Channel Flow experiment . look-alike credit : NASA
Commander Maxim Suraev , Alexander Gerst , and Reid Wiseman continue on the station , bear on to run experiments on hairlike action of fluids in microgravity , whatflames do on the station , navigatingSPHERES , and puzzling over why the launch rack keepsejecting DOVES on its own schedule .
Suraev notice some interesting debris clouds , while Gerst wonders just how many lakes Canada has ( 1.4 million,60 % of all the lake in the mankind ) . Image credits : NASA / Maxim Suraev;NASA / Alexander Gerst
Suraev , Gerst , and Wiseman will be join by the rest of Expedition 41 on September 25th when NASA ’s Barry Wilmore , and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova reach the post . Serova will be the first distaff spaceman to visit the outer space place .
Sunrise over the Atlantic east of New York . Image credit : NASA / Reid Wiseman
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