Yuri Malenchenko was not approved as the first deputy head of the Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC) because of his American wife, three sources in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti. Malenchenko married a native of Russia, Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who has US citizenship in 2003. It was the first in ...
The family of astronaut Neil Armstrong received $6 million under a secret agreement with the hospital where he spent the last days of his life and where, according to relatives, he did not receive proper medical care. CNN talks about it. The official statement from his family said…
American astronaut Buzz Aldrin is suing his two children and a former business manager. Aldrin accuses them of misappropriation of funds, as well as that they undermine his reputation, writes the BBC. The astronaut went to court in Florida with ...
In 2008, the American NASA astronaut Randy Breznik adopted a boy from the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Breznik told about this in an interview with Radio Liberty. “He was 2 years and 9 months old and it was a great time for our family. Thereafter…
In the United States, the first astronaut John Glenn dies, ccn.com reports. He was 95 years old. Glenn was previously admitted to the Oncology Unit at The Ohio State University Medical Center. According to a spokesman for the institution, Hank Wilson, the astronaut was placed under medical supervision ...
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station (ISS) photographed the aurora (aurora). The picture was taken on the night of October 7-8, 2015, when a magnetic storm broke out on Earth. The aurora has been seen in the UK, the Baltics, Scandinavia and ...
Astronaut Scott Kelly has been on the International Space Station (ISS) for six months. And this is only half of his stay in orbit and the longest time for any American astronaut. Celebrating half a year, Kelly invited Twitter users to ask him questions about life and work on the ISS. Entering ...
85-year-old American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second after Neil Armstrong to visit the lunar surface, together with the Florida Institute of Technology, will prepare a plan for the colonization of Mars. Aldrin hopes to establish a settlement on the planet in 25 years, in 2039. In this case…