around out in space. you know, we actually need a small version of this, which is our last ditch attempt, if you like, of how to get back to the space station. so, in order to test it, hejust went, take the tethers off. yeah. ..put my money where my mouth is. absolutely. and go for it. for the upcoming artemis missions, nasa has pledged to put the first woman and the first person of colour onto the moon. most astronauts so far have been men, although there was at least one early attempt to address that imbalance. valentina tereshkova, this is 1963, the first woman in space, and this is fairly early on in the space programme. i mean, 61 was when yuri gagarin went as the first human. so, only two years later, we ve got the first woman in space. but actually, having kind of broken the mould and got a woman into space very soon in the programme, the soviets then didn t fly another woman for 20 years svetlana savitskaya. right now, we are. we re about a1% of the global astronau
After free-falling from space at the end of their 1.4 million-mile mission, the crew will need to be fished out of the Pacific. With 500 personnel and the US navy involved, practice is key