07 August 2017
Russia and China set to sign Moon exploration deal this autumn
... Iran amongst others. “Building international partnership is, perhaps, the main strategic task for the entire Russian cosmonautics today. This is because the technological revolution, first of all, in micro-electronics, has made it possible from the...
12 October 2018
Soyuz investigation focuses on second stage failure
... forcing the crew to make an emergency landing. The rocket was carrying US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin. Footage from inside the Soyuz showed the two men being shaken around at the...
25 August 2019
Soyuz craft carrying Skybot F-850 fails to dock at ISS
...ship showed the Soyuz moving from side to side, prompting cosmonaut Aleksei Ovchini to issue the abort command at 01.36 am ...this port is the Soyuz MS-13 which carried Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, NASA astronaut Drew Morgan and European Space...
14 December 2020
Systems shutdown as ISS suffers from power and oxygen failures
.... This time, an emergency shutdown of the Electron occurred due to low pressure in the system. According to news by Novosti, cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov reported the shutdown to the Mission Control Center near Moscow on Saturday, adding that multiple...
25 February 2022
Space Station rides above international conflict
... lead to the ISS “falling out of the sky”. There are currently four NASA astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts and one European astronaut living and working onboard the orbiting outpost, the construction of which was...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... of one shuttle launch cost the US around $450 million.1 A Russian poster from 1961, “Glory to the First Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin!” In the 1980s and 1990s it was assumed that it would be possible to reduce costs in the space...
