States that Yuri Baturin, defense adviser of Boris Yeltsin, will join the crew of the Russian space station, Mir, in 1998. Baturin's secret lessons at the cosmonaut training center outside Moscow; Why he is taking the trip into space.MeierAndrewTime...
Sharman, who had previously worked as a chemist at the Mars chocolate company, won her ride to the Russian space station in 1989 in a contest sponsored by several British companies that aimed to send a British citizen to Mir. Sharman learned about the contest through a radio advertisement that...
MOSCOW. April 25 (Interfax) - Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub have taken a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) to install scientific equipment on the Poisk module, according to a Roscosmos broadcast.The cosmonauts opened the exit hatch of the Poisk module of ...
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has now become the 40th country in history to see one of its citizens fly into space with the launch of a crew bound for the International Space Station. Hazzaa Ali Almansoori, a spaceflight participant flying under a contract between Russia's space agency ...
The first group of Russian astronauts arrived separately in a spacecraft and dock (对接) with the space station.Then they entered Salyut 1 and lived there for 23 days.While they were there, they did experiments and watched space and the Earth below. The Soviet Union went on to make seven...
MOSCOW. April 25 (Interfax) - Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub are expected to perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday to install scientific equipment on the Poisk module. The cosmonauts will open the hatch to the Poisk module at 5:55 p...
The International Space Station was a small three-room “apartment” when the first crew (工作人员) moved in. Twenty years later, the complex has a lookout tower, three toilets, six sleeping places and 12 rooms. The first crew-American Bill Shepherd and Russian Sergei Krikalev and Yun Gidzen...
Now, with commercial spaceflight blasting off in the United States, Russia began a mission to chalk up another first Tuesday, launching a Russian actress and director to the International Space Station to film scenes for a feature-length movie — "The Challenge" — about a medical emergency in...
A Russian film director and actress are headed to the International Space Station to shoot scenes for the first movie filmed in outer space. Elizabeth Palmer speaks with a Russian film historian about the latest Russia vs. U.S. chapter of the decades old “Space Race.”...