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...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... 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...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... 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...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
... 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, embryogenesis and the neanic...
