Since the beginning of the space program, astronauts have dealt with the realities of spaceflight from microgravity in weak muscles and space radiation, to sleep deprivation and disorientation. Both ...

When astronauts go to bed in space, they do not lie down. There is no mattress, no pillow and no blanket tucked around them. Instead, they float. Some sleep standing upright, some sideways, and some ...

Astronaut Ron Garan sleeps in his sleeping bag on the International Space Station in 2008. (NASA) In March, two NASA astronauts finally returned to Earth after an eight-day mission devolved into a 286 ...

Real life vs. astronaut life − what's that like? With the Axiom-2 rocket launch, SpaceX’s second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, no doubt, the ride there will be a ...

After decades of research, scientists may have a seemingly unlikely solution: a sleeping bag, developed in conjunction with REI, that pulls fluids away from the brain. A concern that has emerged ...

Humans adapt. We live in trackless deserts, on the tops of mountains, in pestilential jungles, in prisons and hospitals. To survive we sleep, for we need sleep like food. We adapt to sleeping in space ...

Russian astronaut Vasily Tsibliyev hadn’t had a good night’s sleep for 12 days. He was being kept awake on purpose, as part of a study about sleeping on board the space station Mir. On the 13th day, ...