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# Astronaut

The Pokemon Center's New Space-Themed Collection Includes the Astronaut Pikachu Plush That Spent 67 Days in Orbit

Pokémon's collaboration with the European Space Agency has officially led to a merch drop. The new collection includes two new Pikachu plushies, listed at $29.

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Petapixel ·last mo.

Astronaut’s Before-and-After Photos Show How Cities Switched From Orange to White Light

Over the past 15 years, cities at night around the world have undergone a transformation: instead of being bathed in warm, orange sodium vapor light, they’re now lit up by brighter, white LED lights.

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Petapixel ·3 mo. ago

Astronaut Captures Dazzling Aurora Dancing Above Earth

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot (@sophastro) was recently treated to incredible, dazzling aurora displays in space while aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

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Caledonianrecord ·3 mo. ago

Astronaut shows how to vacuum on the International Space Station

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Themountaineer ·3 mo. ago

Astronaut shows how to vacuum on the International Space Station

By Dean Murray By Dean Murray European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot demonstrated on Wednesday, June 24, how to do housekeeping on the International Space Station (ISS).

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Newsweek ·3 mo. ago

UFO Update: NASA astronaut reveals planned test for extraterrestrial life

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit has revealed a plan to test for extraterrestrial life on the International Space Station (ISS). Dr. Anil Menon, an emergency medicine physician and U.

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Satnews ·3 mo. ago

Who Has Authority to Intervene in a Space-Based Emergency?

If an astronaut crew suffers a catastrophic life-support failure in low-Earth orbit today, no global authority possesses the centralized legal mandate—or the structural obligation—to execute an emergency rescue mission.

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Spacedaily ·3 mo. ago

In June 2025, a 65-year-old former NASA astronaut named Peggy Whitson became the oldest woman ever to orbit Earth — taking off aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon as commander of the privately funded Axiom Mission 4 — and during her 18-day stay on the International Space Station, she pushed her career total past 695 cumulative days in space, the most of any American astronaut and the most of any woman who has ever lived.

The numbers behind Peggy Whitson’s career do not, by themselves, capture the unusual shape of it. She is, by total time in orbit, the most experienced American astronaut alive — ahead of every man and woman the agency…