For most of the last decade, as astronauts and cosmonauts orbited the Earth aboard the International Space Station they were circling the globe at an altitude of approximately 220 statute miles, or ...
The US Federal Aviation Administration has just published an urgent airworthiness directive (AD) requiring a crew pre-flight briefing about the functioning of the cabin altitude warning system for all ...
Altitude sickness describes several symptoms that happen to your body when you’re exposed to a higher elevation within a short period of time. Altitude sickness is common when people are traveling and ...