06 October 2021
Russian crew arrives at ISS to film first movie in orbit
... to the International Space Station," Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky tweeted from the ISS. The crew travelled in a Soyuz MS-19 spaceship to film scenes for "The Challenge". The movie's plot, which has been mostly kept under...
08 December 2021
Japanese billionaire heads to the ISS for a 12 day stay
... cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0738 GMT, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. Their journey aboard the three-person Soyuz spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin will take just over six hours, capping a banner year that...
02 March 2018
Soyuz Owners’ Workshop Manual
... launch vehicle, the Sokol spacesuit and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project provides additional interest and context. The ... of its Federation spacecraft as a replacement for the venerable Soyuz, but it promises to remain operational for a while yet...
20 July 2018
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: The NASA Mission Reports
... in orbit at the height of the Cold War. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), which took place in 1975, was a surprise... suit-up to splashdown, the handshake, inflight press conference, Soyuz landing and so on. Grouped together with similar volumes on...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... of Baikonur and minimal modifications have been performed on the Kourou versions of the vehicle, Soyuz-STA and Soyuz-STB, to take greatest advantage of Soyuz flight experience. While the flight software has been adjusted to new trajectories from...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... headlines as it was carrying two crew on board the Soyuz MS-10 capsule. Thankfully, the escape system worked well and ...claims (including a US$71 million claim for the delivery failure of Soyuz MS-10), resulting in a net loss for space insurers - as ...
