The trio was supposed to fly to the space station last spring, but their original capsule was needed as a replacement for another crew. That crew — also two Russians and an American — will ride it home later this month. Their stay was extended from six mon...
One of those teams will have to return to Earth in October on their Soyuz capsule, so NASA and its space station partners will have to decide by then whether to partially evacuate the orbiting lab and leave it staffed with a three-person crew until normal launches resume, Suffredini said....
The most successful space station built by the Soviet Union flew from 1986 through 2001. It was called Mir and assembled on orbit (much as the later ISS was). It hosted a number of crew members from the Soviet Union and other countries in a show of space cooperation. The idea was to ...
Buran: The Energia-Buran reusable spacecraft program (1974-1993)BOR scaled prototypes of Buran | Buran BTS-002/OK GLI flight test vehicle Strizh rescue suitMir space station: The first permanent manned outpost in space (1986-2001)Kliper space plane: A study of a reusable orbiter to replace ...
A space station program created by the former Soviet Union and continued by Russia until 2001.MVD (MVD) (Russian: министерствовнутреннихдел) (MVD Russian acronym for Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del, Ministry of Internal Affairs) (The Soviet Union secret police from...
“It’s still unclear how justifiable is the concept of an anthropomorphic robot working on a space station,”saidSegey Kolyubin, head of the International Laboratory of Biomechatronics and Energy-Efficient Robotics atITMO Universityin Russia. “Generally though, when there is direct interaction with...
"Right now we've agreed with our partners that the station will be used until approximately 2020," he said in comments released on Wednesday. Space junk is becoming an increasingly serious headache. A piece of space debris narrowly missed the space station last month in a rare incident that ...
Aptly, the Bratva case opened up like a Russian doll, each suspect leading to another, and another, until we wound up all the way back at the beginning, with the wife of the deceased revealed to have orchestrated his death. The first, discounted interviewee turning out to be the culprit...
The 2015 space station flight by Kelly and Kornienko will be the longest mission to theInternational Space Station, but not the longest continuous spaceflight. That record is held by cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who lived aboard Russia's Mir space station from January 1994 until March 1995, ultimate...
Noticeable civil protests against the war in Chechnya would not begin until 2001—that is, five years later. [My comrade Antti Rautiainen, who was very much in the thick of things in those years (he was a co-organizer of the first antiwar street protest in Moscow, in November 1999), ...