July 2014
Why become a cosmonaut? To preserve knowledge
In human spaceflight, the human factor is as important as the technical side. From the very beginning, human spaceflight was made possible not only because of extraordinary scientific breakthroughs, but also because the human spirit was driving the ...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
... Lada very quickly and in October 2002, the first experiment in cultivating mizuna (a type of mustard greens) began. Roman Romanenko with some of his mizuna plants. Between October 2002 and November 2011, 17 experiments were conducted in the...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... terrestrial international politics”. US astronaut, Kevin Ford Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonauts Roman Romanenko (with camera) and Evgeny Tarelkin aboard the International Space Station on Christmas Eve 2012. But...
