12 April 2021
60 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space
... halt to proceedings and once in the air, the Vostok spacecraft entered into orbit at a higher altitude than expected... Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday. Gagarin’s now rusty Vostok capsule is on display at Moscow's Museum of Cosmonautics where...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
..., on the other hand, sent the first woman into space back in 1963 (Valentina Tereshkova, 16 June 1963, on Vostok-6). Tereshkova remains the only woman to have gone to space solo. For 20 years, social factors in the US and...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
...specimens of the fruit fly have been used in a number of trials in spaceflight conditions, including during the Vostok-3 and Vostok-4 spaceflights. The cosmonauts conducted experiments after arrival in orbit, which appeared to show that fertilisation...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... in space and undertaking flights to deep space and Mars. The initial impact of zero gravity, first experienced by Vostok cosmonaut Herman Titov back in 1961, is called space adaptation syndrome (SAS). This is where the vestibular system...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
Initial discussions about joint operations for launches actively began 25 years later in the early 1990s, when the fall of the two blocks spurred Russia to further promote its already existing launch assets - including the heavy launcher Proton, as ...
07 August 2015
NASA pays Roscosmos $490 million for ISS access even as U.S.-Russia relations at a historic low
... of the Russian space programme has hit a number of rough patches, including funding issues for the new Vostok Cosmodrome, and spotty rocket performance on unmanned missions. Still, the new deal between NASA and Roscosmos...
