24 February 2016
Final interview for Scott Kelly tomorrow before his return to Earth
... a 340 day mission in space along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. After landing, Kelly will have spent in.... The last person to spend a year in microgravity was Russian cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev in 1999. The mission has been significant for a...
05 September 2018
Soyuz leak investigations focus on human error
... stated. The ISS crew - which comprises two Russian cosmonauts, three NASA astronauts and an ESA German astronaut -...would be nearly impossible in that part of the spacecraft. “Why would cosmonauts do it?” he asked. The hole is in a section of the ...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
...Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, announced that “a spacecraft carrying cosmonauts will fly around the moon in 2028, and their landing...a Yenisei super-heavy rocket, designed specifically for ferrying cosmonauts to the Moon. However, the Space Council of the...
18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
...agency added. To date, a total of 227 astronauts and cosmonauts have completed a spacewalk, but only 15 of them have ...(14 of them have been American), the first being Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya on the 25 July 1984. All spacewalks involving ...
06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
... by ESA officials for his return home. Koch will continue home to Houston. Skvortsov will board a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft to return to his home in Star City, Russia. The Expedition 61 crew contributed to hundreds of experiments...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... use of the core of the spacecraft interior Illnesses have occurred on space flights, including heartbeat irregularities: Mir cosmonaut Vasily Tsiblyev suffered heart scare issues on his mission in 1997, after the Progress supply ship collision...
