Lots of things can go wrong during a commercial spaceflight -- especially once your capsule leaves space. An unplanned ocean landing is just one of those worst-case scenarios. From time to time, I get ...

ESA astronauts Matthias Maurer and Samantha Cristoforetti joined 16 Chinese astronauts in August 2017 for nine days of sea survival training off China’s coastal city of Yantai. The course was ...

On Aug. 14, 2017, European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts Samantha Crisoforetti and Matthias Maurer trained with their counterparts with the China National Space Administration (CNSA) in Yantai, China.

One of the things that is rather unique about spaceflight training is the very heavy focus on dealing with off-nominal situations. In many ways, this is completely understandable; spaceflight is ...

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In a laboratory in the north of England, a group of scientists are playing God – or at least, they’re brewing up an almighty storm. At the Extreme Environments Lab, elite sailors are quite literally ...

Preparedness is and always has been an important part of military life as well as an encouraged practice for Family members and civilian employees. Nature Reliance School, which is located about two ...

As the team is lifted onto a ship during the Aug. 18, 2017 training, ESA's Matthias Maurer is in good spirits. During the sea survival training, the Shenzhou capsule mock-up is raised back onto the ...