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...
The idea was to keep a long-term research outpost in low-Earth orbit, and it survived many years until its funding was cut. Mir is the only space station that was built by one country's regime and then run by the successor to that regime. It happened when the Soviet Union dissolved ...
In terms of theory, the history of Russian space exploration goes back to the 19th century. However, as with the United States, the practice of sending missions to space did not begin until after World War II. It was at this time, during the fabled “Space Race” between the east and ...
"There will be one commander on board to provide spacecraft control, and two spaceflight participants." Russia plans to use Soyuz to fly cosmonauts to the ISS until 2024, which is the current date for decommissioning the station, Solntsev said. A larger crew vehicle named Federation (Federat...
“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...
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....
My cromwell-intl.com domain appeared in September, 2001, although the Wayback Machine didn't notice its one enormous Toilets of the World page until January 17, 2002. Some time soon after that I split it into categories, and the collection has grown ever since. In December, 2010 I regis...
A psychologist arrives at the Solaris space station and discovers strange goings-on: all the scientists on board are suffering from some kind of mental illness. The psychologist too starts seeing hallucinations in the form of his dead wife. Tarkovsky’s sci-fi drama was adapted for screen from...
After nursing an emotional erection forToy Story 3* over the last few weeks it seemed sensible to check out the other kid-oriented cinematic offerings of the summer.The Karate KidWhenJaden Smithascends to superstardom, as he inevitably will, I only hope he retains the infectious likeability of...