.... This time, an emergency shutdown of the Electron occurred due to low pressure in the system. According to news by Novosti, cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov reported the shutdown to the Mission Control Center near Moscow on Saturday, adding that multiple...
... lead to the ISS “falling out of the sky”. There are currently four NASA astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts and one European astronaut living and working onboard the orbiting outpost, the construction of which was...
... of one shuttle launch cost the US around $450 million.1 A Russian poster from 1961, “Glory to the First Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin!” In the 1980s and 1990s it was assumed that it would be possible to reduce costs in the space...
My name is Wang Yaping and I am a taikonaut. Fifty-one years ago, Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, and a door was opened. One after another, women ...
... with manned spacecraft and the exploration of nearby star systems that is the ultimate “end-game” of Earth’s cosmonautics programs.5 …nostalgia for the planet of one’s origin cannot be avoided, but the individual will not be able...
... net – that we have today. ISS dress rehearsals Aboard the ISS today, astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are conducting a ‘Year In Space’ mission, teaching us how the human body reacts during long...