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I almost drowned in space when my helmet filled with water

During his second-ever spacewalk, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano felt water creeping across his face – and knew he could be moments from drowning inside his helmet

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Astronaut Sally Ride, mission specialist on STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the Flight Deck. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. (Credit: NASA)

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Life of first US woman in space Sally Ride makes a moving documentary

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Being in space makes it harder for astronauts to think quickly

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How to turn most of the CO2 an astronaut exhales into fresh oxygen

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Astronaut inside the International Space Station using the combustion rack

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Five of the most important International Space Station experiments

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Space travel may make muscles age extremely quickly

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Astronauts could drink their own urine with water-recycling spacesuit

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Astronauts Robert L. Curbeam Jr. (left) and Christer Fuglesang on the International Space Station

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Astronaut medical records reveal the health toll of space travel

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Meet Christina Koch, who will be the first woman to go to the moon

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Meet Christina Koch, who will be the first woman to go to the moon

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Mae C Jemison was the first Black woman to go into space

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NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan on zero G dreams and fixing Hubble

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Low gravity in space made some astronauts’ blood flow backwards

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Christina Koch snapped this majestic picture of Soyuz 61 from the ISS

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After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts

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