13 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... a series of robotic missions to lunar orbit and the surface of the moon in the 2020s in preparation for a visit by cosmonauts in the 2030s. The statement offered no details on the Russian moon mission. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft (left) and...
14 October 2015
Putin delays first launch from new Russian cosmodrome
... responsible for construction, Putin said that while the ideal would be to have the launch before April 12—Cosmonautics Day in Russia—“a last-minute rush is unnecessary.” Construction of the $3 billion cosmodrome has faced delays, a hunger strike...
18 October 2015
ROOM at the 66th International Astronautical Congress in Israel
... 12 to October 16 in Jerusalem, Israel. The editorial meeting included ROOM editor-in-chief Igor Ashurbeyli, retired cosmonaut and former Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of UN COPUOS Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, Director of the...
19 October 2015
Scott Kelly, Mikhail Kornienko, long-duration spaceflight and the human body
... longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut. The Earth-wide record for the longest spaceflight is currently held by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who spent 437 consecutive days and 18 hours aboard the Mir space station in 1994...
15 December 2015
First British Astronaut Leaves for ISS Today
.... The astronauts will join current space station commander and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov, who are scheduled to depart the ISS in March. Kopra, currently on his...
07 July 2016
Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launched successfully from Baikonur
... 18. “We’re very lucky, we have a very busy mission,” said Rubins. “That’s actually a wonderful thing for astronauts and cosmonauts. We have many visiting vehicles that are arriving, we made do some EVAs and we have a huge research complement...
