31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
... hand – to the Moon by 2023, with help from a NASA-funded space mission known as GLEE (Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone). The project is part of an initiative financed by NASA’s New York and Colorado Space Grant Consortium...
02 March 2020
Method for sealing Soyuz leak patented by Russian rocket firm
... with an ultrasonic leak detector. If necessary, a few more layers of glue can be applied to strengthen the fix. The Expedition 56 crew who found the hole in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, used a cloth soaked with a special adhesive composition...
23 September 2020
Third move for the ISS this year to avoid space debris
... the Russian Progress resupply spacecraft currently docked to the aft end of the Zvezda service module. The Expedition 63 crew members – Chris Cassidy, Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner – relocated to their Soyuz spacecraft until the...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
... sessions were organised and conducted for the first time for a group of Russian cosmonauts included in international expeditions to the Mir space station. Alternating training sessions at the Russian and US space centres also facilitated continuous...
June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... to Mars and its colonisation are an integral part of the idea of a space expansion. The engineering project of the expedition to Mars (Das Marsprojekt) was prepared by Wernher von Braun in 1948 and became the first “technically comprehensive...
11 December 2015
ISS Crew have undocked and are heading for Earth
... of Roscosmos who will continue to operate the station in their absence. Kelly and Kornienko were originally members of Expedition 44 and have remained aboard the space station in a joint U.S - Russian year long mission in preparation for activities...
