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...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... with space – it was shrouded in so many enticing mysteries. Personally, I am a bit of a coward and afraid of heights so becoming a cosmonaut was out of the question. I went to study astronomy in Kiev State University: I was fascinated by the famous...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
...the leadership of Bruce Bugbee, especially for greenhouses of various bioregenerative life support systems, including those in space. Cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, the seed-to-seed cycle of the super-dwarf wheat growing experiment in the ‘Lada’ greenhouse...
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
...our home planet rising above the horizon of the Moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk,...and later becoming a member of the first class of Soviet cosmonauts. He continued with his art studies and created his first ...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...book of that title. He quotes from several astronauts and cosmonauts who experienced similar feelings, including Apollo 11 command module ... or religion or economic system.” Again, Soyuz T-5 cosmonaut Anatoly Berezovoy wrote: “the longer you stay in...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
...in the bone system One of the important aspects of preserving the performance and quality of life of cosmonauts in spaceflight is the development of a system of comprehensive preventive interventions aimed at reducing the risk of developing disorders...
