22 July 2015
Flawless Baikonur launch sees Soyuz head to ISS, reminds of importance of international cooperation
... mission to the International Space Station. The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome took place at at 21:02 UTC. The Soyuz, a trusty “work horse” of a spacecraft, is set to deliver NASA’s Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Kimiya...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... on expendable launch systems that are essentially civil missiles. Indeed, one of the most successful current launchers is Soyuz - the ‘modified missile’ that launched the first satellite in 1957. The situation is little better in human spaceflight...
December 2014
Gods and space
Getting a helping hand – An Orthodox priest performs a blessing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan, ahead of the Soyuz launch that carried Expedition 41 to the International Space Station in September 2014
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... did not involve any collaborative work of any kind. The only exception was in 1986 when the Soyuz T-15 docked with the newly-launched Mir orbital complex and the soon-to-be-retired Salyut 7 station, and...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... rapidly expanding space market. The majority of European orbital space transportation activities are carried out by Ariane, Soyuz and Vega launchers from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, on the Atlantic coast of South...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... Shuttle Columbia. He left Earth believing he would return to Florida aboard the Shuttle. Instead, he landed in Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz vehicle. Don told me that when they opened the hatch and he smelled the grass and dirt...
