May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
... landing, Kazakhstan – February 2020 A beautiful, robust, safe, yet not so gentle return to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft. The Soyuz represents some of the best spacecraft engineering and a wonderful example of international cooperation. Crew members...
January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
... Cosmonaut Boris Yegorov during training in the catapult in 1964. Cosmonauts Vasily Lazarev and Oleg Makarov in the Soyuz-12 spacecraft in 1973. Cosmonauts Oleg Atkov and Leonid Kizim conducting research on board Salyut-7 in 1984. On 27-29 September...
15 December 2015
First British Astronaut Leaves for ISS Today
... the ISS and Russia's Mir space station), and the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft took off under his command. The astronauts... 12:24 p.m. EST (1724 GMT). The hatches will open between the Soyuz and space station are expected to be opened by 2:25 p.m EST ...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
...six days. On the other hand, Dove 2 was launching on a Soyuz-2 1a, one of the most reliable launch vehicles in the whole world, ...needs, such as the Falcon 9, Antares, Atlas V and Soyuz. Despite the wide range of launch opportunities available there is...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... small satellites. The bulk of these satellites are planned to launch as rideshare on the large and well-established Soyuz launch vehicle, for which 21 vehicles have been contracted to launch between 32 and 36 satellites at a time, depending on the...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... more severe cases or among certain age groups. Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft landing in Kazakhstan with ISS crew members... tested positive for coronavirus after attending the launch of a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Even so, there...
