... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... of two, use of the same engine for landing and ascent, and the lack of a docking tunnel (the cosmonaut had to spacewalk between LK3 and the Soyuz-type spacecraft in lunar orbit). Baikonur, September 1968 - US Gambit...
... to astronauts over the years and one might almost believe they are a superstitious lot: while Russian cosmonauts like to urinate on the tyres of their transfer vehicles (in honour of Yuri Gagarin’s apocryphal habit), American astronauts prefer...