29 March 2018
The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling
... more than a history text. Indeed, clearly by design, headings such as ‘The Birth of the Gagarin Cult’, ‘Dapper Cosmonauts and Homo-Social Bonding’, and ‘Soviet Sex Symbol’ make it difficult to suppress a natural inquisitiveness. It was inevitable...
April 2026
Art, imagination and the human spirit
... and studying Art in Moscow. I was told about the Cosmonautics Museum and the rocket by a friend. I set out ... particularly the time I spent at the Moscow Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics. The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the Solar wind Magnetosphere...
June 2021
How time perception as a spaceflight stress indicator
...psychotherapist, Virginia Satir. There were two main reasons to adopt Satir’s model for our research: firstly, cosmonauts reported in post-flight interviews feeling a lack of trust in MCC specialists and doubting their willingness to appreciate their...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
...racial, social and cultural diversity of the world reveals endless opportunities for mutual enrichment, while helping a cosmonaut to understand their mission or role as a resident of planet Earth and not just of a particular country. At the same time...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
...that when they got back to Earth, they should ask cosmonaut Sevastianov for more details, as he “knew all about ...Vitaly Sevastianov happened to be on vacation and he didn’t greet the cosmonauts as normal on their return to Earth. So, they kept the ...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...spacesuits and training time in Star Town for two prospective cosmonauts (or ‘hangtianyuan’ in Chinese). There were several items...sites for earlier Luna landings and the proposed landing by cosmonauts, returned to identify sites for the new landings, ...
