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Space10 October 2025
By ScienceAlert Staff
Winston Elliott Scott knows a happening oregon 2 astir being successful space.
As a NASA astronaut, Winston took trips into orbit successful 1996 and 1997 connected committee 2 antithetic shuttles, logging conscionable implicit 24 days successful abstraction by taking portion successful 2 missions that included 3 spacewalks.
Winston nary longer goes into space, having retired from NASA and the US Navy successful 1999.
Aged 75, helium is present a subordinate of a increasing radical of astronauts who person endured the hazards of radiation, long periods of microgravity, the crush of accelerated acceleration, and possibly the occasional alien microbe NASA ne'er told america about.
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To find retired what being successful abstraction is similar – and what surviving successful abstraction does to you – ScienceAlert newsman Chris 'Spo' Esposito checked successful with Winston for an exclusive interview.
Watch the clip to perceive from Winston personally, and you'll observe not lone however NASA deals with the wellness of its past, present, and aboriginal astronauts – but besides what benignant of impacts abstraction question has connected the quality body, and connected the caput too.
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