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...
05 October 2023
Space nation reveals ambition of global recognition
... by Chair of Parliament Lembit Öpik, Prime Minister Lena De Winne, and Head of the Administration to the Head of Nation, cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu. Mr Öpik spoke about the world's first digital democracy, a new term introduced into...
06 June 2024
NASA troubleshoots helium leaks after Starliner launch
... Expedition 71 crew of NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matt Dominick, Tracy Dyson and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin and Oleg Kononenko. For Boeing, the once-vaunted aerospace contractor, the...
26 February 2018
Why do we go into space?
... raises the question of what life will look like 250 years after the famous flight of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961. This flight, which was part of a Cold War “space race” between two governments...
