Weight loss, blurred vision, DNA changes: how being in space affects the human body

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio recently returned from a mission in orbit where he spent 371 days aboard the ISS. The journey may have changed his muscles, his brain and even the bacteria living in his gut, the BBC reports. Its time in orbit exceeded the previous one...

Extraterrestrial scam: a scammer disguised as an astronaut defrauded a woman of $ 30 to 'return home from orbit'

A 65-year-old Japanese woman was lured out of about $ 27 under the pretext of returning to Earth. According to Japanese media, the scammer pretended to be a Russian cosmonaut on the ISS who could not return home due to funding problems, according to MC.Today. "Cosmonaut" met a woman in ...

60 years ago, Gagarin flew into space: a special video from Google and eyewitness memories

On April 12, Google released a touching video dedicated to Cosmonautics Day. It contains an appeal to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. His flight took place exactly 60 years ago. In the video entitled “Message to Yuri Gagarin,” astronauts, scientists, directors, students,…

How to physically and psychologically adapt to self-isolation: life hacks of astronauts

What do people do who have to completely abandon their usual life, Lifehacker tells. You're probably feeling stressed and lonely right now. Now imagine that you live in a small enclosed space 400 kilometers above the Earth for six months. Astronauts...

The first cosmonaut of Ukraine Leonid Kadenyuk died

The first cosmonaut of independent Ukraine Leonid Kadenyuk died at the age of 67. The man died suddenly in Tsarskoe Selo park in Kiev before the arrival of an ambulance, writes "Present time". Kadenyuk was born in 1951 in the village of Klishkovtsy, Chernivtsi region. Since 1976 he worked ...

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