Lots of things can go wrong during a commercial spaceflight -- especially once your capsule leaves space. An unplanned ocean landing is just one of those worst-case scenarios. From time to time, I get ...

ESA astronauts Matthias Maurer and Samantha Cristoforetti joined 16 Chinese astronauts in August 2017 for nine days of sea survival training off China’s coastal city of Yantai. The course was ...

“One, two, three,” counts Sara Garcia Alonso, looking at her fellow astronaut Amelie Schonenwald before both fall backwards from the life raft into the water. With a hiss their life jackets inflate, ...

One of the things that is rather unique about spaceflight training is the very heavy focus on dealing with off-nominal situations. In many ways, this is completely understandable; spaceflight is ...