04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... the retirement of the shuttle, US astronauts have been hitching a ride to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft which lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. However after 2019 NASA are on their...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
...of space tourism truly began when millionaire Dennis Tito flew on Soyuz TM-32 to the International Space Station. An idea was born....optional) Academic study of the Soyuz spacecraft Practical training using Soyuz simulators and training booths Academic...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
...-M launch failures, both government-sponsored and commercial, have helped out the Khrunichev Centre’s competitors. The Soyuz rocket is comparable to the Falcon 9 v.1.1 as far as carrying capacity and cost. But this respectable Russian launch vehicle...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...handler and analyser on Luna 27 (Britain and Italy). However, this is hardly a programme of cooperation. The days of the Soyuz rocket at the Kourou launch site in French Guiana appear to be numbered, as European customers move to Vega C, Ariane 6 and...
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
... mission aboard space shuttle Discovery in 2008 and a crew member for Expeditions 32 and 33, launching aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2012 for a 124-day visit to the station. Pesquet previously flew as part of Expeditions 50 and 51, launching...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
.... Luckily, I struck gold. Colour TV camera flown on Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. One thing about NASA and the people...into the side of the main camera casing. It read: ‘Apollo-Soyuz Color TV Camera, Westinghouse Electric Corp’. “How on Earth did ...
