Astronauts don't get enough sleep on orbit, a new study reveals. Researchers discovered that 64 astronauts on board 80 space shuttle missions, and 21 astronauts on the International Space Station ...

Ever since the Apollo 11 headed to the Moon in late 1969, astronauts have complained of sleep deprivation. Now a study has shed light on the extent of the sleep deprivation and fatigue suffered by ...

Tom Marshburn shares how he became a NASA astronaut whose spent over 300 days in space and why he's now happy working his ...

Before astronauts blast off toward the space station, psychiatrists with NASA's Behavioral Health and Performance team offer sleep cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) education. This provides the ...

The astronauts wore devices on their wrists called actigraphs to track their sleep, and also kept a sleep diary. Overall, the researchers collected sleep data from more than 4,200 nights in space ...

Learn how astronauts can lose bone density and how muscles can weaken. As we continue to explore space, NASA is looking into how to prevent this as well.

While Cooper was up in space, on a 34-hour mission, he became the first American to spend an entire day in space and the first to sleep in space. But how does an astronaut sleep in space? They do it ...

Who knows about sleep? Astronauts. They have to. Their bodies are cut off from many of the normal external cues that remind us what time it is. In orbit they can experience a dozen sunrises and ...

Astronauts have dark, quiet and private crew quarters on the space station conducive to good sleep — but that won’t always be the case on other space missions, said Dr. Erin Flynn-Evans ...

If you have ever wondered how astronauts eat, sleep, shower, and more while in outer space, you can find the answers in this article.

Sleep is important for our health and well-being, and bad sleep can negatively impact our attention span, memory, decision-making skills, creativity and judgment. Astronauts living in zero gravity ...

Ever since the Apollo 11 headed to the Moon in late 1969, astronauts have complained of sleep deprivation. Now a study has shed light on the extent of the sleep deprivation and fatigue suffered by ...