Earth, Astronaut Nichole Ayers is fulfilling a life-long dream. Ayers has been aboard the International Space Station since ...

Four astronauts are set to launch to the space station Friday. When they arrive, the new crew of 11 will be the largest since the shuttle program, and there aren't enough sleeping pods for them all.

Two NASA astronauts have been stuck on the International Space Station due to Boeing Starliner delays. Butch Wilmore has been camping in a sleeping bag in the Japanese Space Agency's module, Time ...

International Space Station astronauts preparing makeshift sleeping arrangements on April 7, 2021, to accommodate SpaceX's Crew-2 mission, which brought four new crewmembers to the orbiting lab on ...

Astronauts Thomas D. Jones and Mark L. Polansky in sleeping bags on the International Space Station in 2001. NASA As the ISS orbits the Earth, it experiences the sun rising and setting 16 times a day.

The International Space Station is crewed by some of the smartest, ... Once inside this space, they enter a sleeping bag and tether themselves to the wall to stay in place.

Humans have been living on the International Space Station for 19 years. The 360-ton space station is larger than a five-bedroom house, and it has enough room for six sleeping quarters, a gym, a ...

Cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin (Expedition 6) inside his sleep station in the International Space Station's Zvezda service module. (Image credit: NASA) Astronauts don't get enough sleep on orbit, a new ...

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 ...