October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... will then be a technique that could feasibly be applied to other targets should the need arise. Planned to be launched by a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, AIM will have a projected launch mass of 800kg – less...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
.... We’re thinking of using a modernised version of the Angara-A5 rocket for launch (an instant money-saver) and using the Soyuz spacecrafts as our foundation. The landing module can be developed using existing Fregat technology. The Moon on a budget...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... Shuttle Columbia. He left Earth believing he would return to Florida aboard the shuttle. Instead, he landed in Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz vehicle. Don told me that when they opened the hatch and he smelled the grass and dirt...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... both veterans of previous space flights. I’ve dreamt of being part of a spaceship crew since I was a child. We flew up in the Soyuz spacecraft, which small at about 7 m from the front to back. What’s really amazing is that we arrived in space after...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
During his first orbital flight on the Mercury-6 spacecraft, astronaut John Glenn noticed a strange phenomenon. The spacecraft was in orbit and, when the Sun came up, he reported with great excitement that he was surrounded by thousands of small ...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... conducting physics experiments, among others. In 1978 the Polish astronaut, Miroslaw Hermaszewski went to space on the Soviet Soyuz-30 spaceship. The purpose of the trip was an eight day mission to conduct experiments on the Soviet station Salyut...
