FIRST FLIGHT FOR RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL AIRCRAFT.The article reports that one of two Tupolev Tu-214PU aircraft belonging to the Russian government had its initial flight in May, 2010.EBSCO_bspAviation Week & Space Technology
Eight more space tourists travelled on Russian spaceflights between 2001 and 2009. In 2022, three multimillionaire businessmenflew to the International Space StationonSpaceX's first private charter flight to the orbiting lab. They each paid $55m (£42m) for t...
Though Ride’s 1983 flight on theChallenger space shuttlemarked the first time an American woman had been in space, she wasn’t the first woman.Valentina Tereshkova, a Russian cosmonaut who spent three days in space two decades earlier, was the world’s first, though theUSSRtook nearly 20 m...
Once NASA retired the space shuttle nearly a decade ago, the country was left with "no mechanism for sending astronauts to space, other than to pay for a seat on a Russian rocket," ARK Invest analyst Sam Korus told CNBC. That handed Russia a monopoly on human spaceflight, which Korus no...
Russian Space Forces carried out 450 thousand satellite control sessions in 2024 Jan 10, 2025 The return of the Starliner crew stranded on the ISS has been postponed until the end of March 2025 Dec 19, 2024 Acceptance of the operator’s workplace of the complex simulator of the new genera...
4. First man in space: Yuri Gagarin Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, who completed a circuit of the earth in the spaceship satellite Vostok in 1961. Riding a tide of successes in space, the Soviet Union set out to achieve the nex...
Tito could be nearing 90 himself when he finally gets his Starship flight, but he told "CBS Mornings" correspondent Janet Shamlian he's in better shape now than when he launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to become the first so-called space tourist. ...
“The first launch from a new pad is an important and sensitive event. Things like this happen. We will work it out,”the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Igor Komarov, said in comments on the hitch. READ MORE: After failed launch, Putin demands answers on billion-dollar spac...
Shotwell said the Sunday mission isn’t “substantially different” from that flight, “with the exception that we got there once.” U.S. astronaut to fly aboard Russian craft The unmanned capsule is packed with about 1,000 pounds of cargo – everything from low-sodium food kits to ...
While ESA does have deals with NASA to fly European astronauts as part of the normal space station crew rotation, this mission gave ESA a chance to grab an extra seat and add some of its research to this brief flight. “This is also for the European Space Agency a first step to see ...