18 October 2015
ROOM at the 66th International Astronautical Congress in Israel
... 12 to October 16 in Jerusalem, Israel. The editorial meeting included ROOM editor-in-chief Igor Ashurbeyli, retired cosmonaut and former Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of UN COPUOS Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, Director of the...
19 October 2015
Scott Kelly, Mikhail Kornienko, long-duration spaceflight and the human body
... longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut. The Earth-wide record for the longest spaceflight is currently held by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who spent 437 consecutive days and 18 hours aboard the Mir space station in 1994...
15 December 2015
First British Astronaut Leaves for ISS Today
.... The astronauts will join current space station commander and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov, who are scheduled to depart the ISS in March. Kopra, currently on his...
07 July 2016
Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launched successfully from Baikonur
... 18. “We’re very lucky, we have a very busy mission,” said Rubins. “That’s actually a wonderful thing for astronauts and cosmonauts. We have many visiting vehicles that are arriving, we made do some EVAs and we have a huge research complement...
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...
