May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
Rpace food might conjure thoughts of the fruit-flavoured Tang drink, astronaut ice cream or space food sticks, but none of these products have the strong connection to space that one might imagine. Tang wasn’t developed for space, merely used during...
February 2018
Journey of inspiration
... been a part of human spaceflight. Other art forms occurred more rarely during the early missions - like cosmonaut Alexey Leonov’s coloured pencil sketches of orbital sunrise and charcoal portraits of his Apollo/Soyuz crewmates – although...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... spaceflight The Astronaut Training division has the responsibility for providing training to all ISS astronauts and cosmonauts in relation to ESA contributions to the ISS programme. This includes the analysis of astronaut tasks and definition...
June 2018
Striding through space
... for newspapers and magazines about spaceflight programs and personalities, and has interviewed many astronauts and cosmonauts. Ken is co-editor of the NASA History Office’s Apollo 11 Flight Journal, a contributor to the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal...
July 2018
A moment in space and time
... confidence that the birth of the first space nation of the united humankind - Asgardia - has taken place. Cosmonaut Oleg Atremiev sends a message from the International Space Station. “No matter what happens in the future, the...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... most likely the one that took the TV images of the famous handshake between the astronauts and cosmonauts of the two space superpowers, signalling a historic cooperation event in space exploration. What a find! I felt like Indiana...
