22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
...Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, announced that “a spacecraft carrying cosmonauts will fly around the moon in 2028, and their landing...a Yenisei super-heavy rocket, designed specifically for ferrying cosmonauts to the Moon. However, the Space Council of the...
18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
...agency added. To date, a total of 227 astronauts and cosmonauts have completed a spacewalk, but only 15 of them have ...(14 of them have been American), the first being Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya on the 25 July 1984. All spacewalks involving ...
06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
... by ESA officials for his return home. Koch will continue home to Houston. Skvortsov will board a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft to return to his home in Star City, Russia. The Expedition 61 crew contributed to hundreds of experiments...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... use of the core of the spacecraft interior Illnesses have occurred on space flights, including heartbeat irregularities: Mir cosmonaut Vasily Tsiblyev suffered heart scare issues on his mission in 1997, after the Progress supply ship collision...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... with space – it was shrouded in so many enticing mysteries. Personally, I am a bit of a coward and afraid of heights so becoming a cosmonaut was out of the question. I went to study astronomy in Kiev State University: I was fascinated by the famous...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
...the leadership of Bruce Bugbee, especially for greenhouses of various bioregenerative life support systems, including those in space. Cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, the seed-to-seed cycle of the super-dwarf wheat growing experiment in the ‘Lada’ greenhouse...
