15, 1965. While circling the planet, astronauts Walter Schirra and Tom Stafford of Gemini 6A linked with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell of Gemini 7. The two spacecraft didn’t dock, but maneuvered as close as one foot from each other. In tandem, they flew more than five hours, circling the Earth three and a half times.

astronaut Wally Schirra

Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the ISS. The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

This means that the owners of the Space Station – the United States, Russia, the European Partner, Japan and Canada – are legally responsible for the respective elements they provide. The European States are being treated as one homogenous entity, called the European Partner on the Space Station.

The TP-82 (Russian: ТП-82) was a triple-barrelled Soviet pistol that was carried by cosmonauts on space missions. It was intended as a survival aid to be used after landings and before recovery in the Siberian wilderness.

Today, astronauts eat a varied diet that is similar to what we eat on Earth. The menu aboard the International Space Station (ISS) includes more than a hundred items – from vegetables and fruit to pre-prepared meals and desserts. Even condiments such as ketchup and mustard are available.

February 21, 2020 Swallowing toothpaste is something you should avoid. Toothpaste contains sodium fluoride, which is a toxin. If you occasionally swallow toothpaste while brushing, that is generally safe. If you ingest too much fluoride, the likely consequence is an upset stomach, along with nausea and vomiting.

Here are five foods that NASA Astronauts can’t eat in space:

• Bread. U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
• Alcohol. United States Embassy, Berlin.
• Salt and Pepper. Getty Images / iStock.
• Soda. Getty Images / iStock.
• Astronaut Ice Cream.

Peggy Whitson set the record on Sept. 2, 2017, for most cumulative days living and working in space by a NASA astronaut at 665 days.

They’re allowed to call out whenever they want. That’s one of the great things about the ISS, that they do have freedom to live a normal life even though they’re flying on a space station. When you’re assigned as a Flight Director to the crew that’s living on the ISS they’ll call you all the time!

The latest iPhone’s processor is estimated to run at about 2490 MHz. Apple do not advertise the processing speed, but others have calculated it. This means that the iPhone in your pocket has over 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon 50 years ago.

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