19 August 2016
It's a Lovely Day for a Spacewalk: New IDA Installation Nears Completion
...-hour EVA has come a long way since man's first venture into open space, when Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov spent twelve minutes outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. The longest EVA to date was done...
19 August 2019
Roscosmos to send Humanoid AI robot to ISS this week
...designated anthropomorphous system," said Dmitry Rogozin, director general of Roscosmos. According to the director general, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov has undergone training required to operate the robot, and was ready to welcome the ‘crew...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
... it from the top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket shortly after liftoff in case of an emergency during a launch. A Russian cosmonaut and US astronaut survived a Soyuz launch in 2018 thanks to such a system. NASA is helping to pay for the development...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
... than other in their maiden flight tests. In preparation for a journey to the Moon, Russia locked away six cosmonauts as part of a test to simulate the effects of extended stays in space and sent a humanoid AI robot called Skybot F-850...
30 May 2020
An historic day for US spaceflight as Crew Dragon launches successfully
... a 19 hour trip to the International Space Station, where current ISS inhabitants – Commander Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos cosmonauts and Flight Engineers Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner – are eagerly awaiting to throw their new guests...
06 July 2020
Russia and Space Adventures sign contract to offer first tourist spacewalk
... of the spaceflight participants will go on a spacewalk from the ISS Russian Segment together with a professional Russian cosmonaut,” say RSC Energia in a statement. The adventure is expected to last between 90 to 100 minutes - approximately the same...
