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...
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
... Center tomorrow, to join the ISS’s current inhabitants, Sergey Ryzhikov, Kate Rubins and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. Cosmonauts Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov are currently gearing up for a Russian spacewalk that will take place soon...
30 July 2021
Starliner OFT-2 launch delayed following problems with Nauka module at ISS
... (ISS) yesterday. Launched 21 July, "Nauka" ("Science" in Russian) is Russia's primary new research module on the ISS Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov became aware of an issue with the new segment after performing leak...
