February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... most likely the one that took the TV images of the famous handshake between the astronauts and cosmonauts of the two space superpowers, signalling a historic cooperation event in space exploration. What a find! I felt like Indiana...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... of two, use of the same engine for landing and ascent, and the lack of a docking tunnel (the cosmonaut had to spacewalk between LK3 and the Soyuz-type spacecraft in lunar orbit). Baikonur, September 1968 - US Gambit...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... to astronauts over the years and one might almost believe they are a superstitious lot: while Russian cosmonauts like to urinate on the tyres of their transfer vehicles (in honour of Yuri Gagarin’s apocryphal habit), American astronauts prefer...
August 2021
Space research in embryology
... been used in a number of trials in spaceflight conditions, including during the Vostok-3 and Vostok-4 spaceflights. The cosmonauts conducted experiments after arrival in orbit, which appeared to show that fertilisation, embryogenesis and the neanic...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... beyond - blasting into orbit. ISS dress rehearsals While aboard the ISS, astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko conduced a ‘Year In Space’ mission, teaching us how the human body reacts during long-term...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... of military space would undermine the popular view of disinterested exploration, discovery, heroic astronauts and cosmonauts, scientific applications and communications satellites. This was legally reinforced at international level, with the 1967...
