... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... on page 3 for a full transcript of his address). The inauguration ceremony was hosted by Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, a Romanian cosmonaut and Asgardia’s Head of Administration to the Head of Nation. It also included speeches from Lembit Öpik, Asgardia...
... terrestrial international politics”. US astronaut, Kevin Ford Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonauts Roman Romanenko (with camera) and Evgeny Tarelkin aboard the International Space Station on Christmas Eve 2012...