{"id":98102,"date":"2025-08-28T06:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98102\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:39:11","slug":"portrait-of-an-astronaut-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98102\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of an Astronaut &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/zena-cardman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zena Cardman<\/a> poses for a portrait in a photography studio on March 22, 2024, at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Cardman is currently aboard the International Space Station, where she performs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/station\/iss-research\/nasas-spacex-crew-11-mission-gears-up-for-space-station-research\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a>, technology demonstrations, and maintenance activities. Recently, she took a robotics test on a computer for the portion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/station\/research-explorer\/investigation\/?#id=8413\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CIPHER<\/a> study that measures cognition, or space-caused changes to her brain structure and function; she also installed high-definition cameras on a spacesuit helmet.<\/p>\n<p>Cardman launched to the space station on NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-11 mission. Members of Crew-11 will contribute to NASA\u2019s Artemis program by simulating Moon landing scenarios that future crews may encounter near the lunar South Pole.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about station activities by following the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/spacestation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">space station blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Josh Valcarcel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut Zena Cardman poses for a portrait in a photography studio on March 22, 2024, at NASA\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55,18164],"class_list":{"0":"post-98102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-zena-cardman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}