Analysis: Destruction of the Mir Space Station and its effect on Russian Space Agency officials and former cosmonautsBOB EDWARDS
it's not very transparent and little unclear. plus there's kind of a subsidy built in with the russian government. the amount of engineering development poured into soyuz and progress nearly broke the back of the russian economy. this is also a game changer in terms of proving it's a ...
A Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket has put the ‘Progress MS-28’ cargo ship, carrying supplies for the ISS, into orbit
once using the space shuttle’s robotic arm to release and retrieve a satellite that collected data on the solar corona. On the ISS, she installed part of the station’s backbone truss andnegotiatedcrew training and protocols with Russian Space Agency le...
While he never flew in space again, Garriott traveled to Kazakhstan in 2008 for his son’s launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. They were the first U.S. father and son space travelers. The first second-generation astronaut, a Russian, launched just months before Richard Garriott and accompan...
s space industry have deprived European space companies of Russian Soyuz rockets. After a failed launch of the Vega-C in December, which was reportedly due to a faulty Ukrainian-made part, European space companies have faced even more limited availability of cargo capacities for commercial ...
Virts is one of only four astronauts ever to have piloted a space shuttle, flown on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, performed space walks and commanded the International Space Station. He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and served as an experimental test pilot in the F...
i got to go with the long answer. when i was a new astronaut, sergei krikalev, a russian cosmonaut, had just come... he had been on mir a few times on the space station where had just come back from a shuttle flight, and he said there was very distinct odor. you come inside ...
When the first residents of the international space station dock tomorrow and slip through the porthole of their new home in space, they will begin a building process hard for earthlings to ignore. The space station will grow in brightness as the three-man American-Russian crew begin adding ...
Michael Morell speaks with Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, former CIA Moscow chief of station and William J. Perry Distinguished Fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, about Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats — and how American policymakers should respond. Mowatt-Larssen stresses that Western...