A study of blood samples from astronauts who participated in NASA's first orbital mission showed an increased level of mutated cells. This caused serious concern among specialists, they have already called for studying the risk of cancer after space flights, reports TechnoNV. Astronauts flew between 1998 and 2001…
On April 12, many countries of the post-Soviet space celebrated Cosmonautics Day. Much has been written and said about the first manned flight into space and about the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, but still there are facts that are not so widely known. Here are some of them. 1.…
The Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on its YouTube page published a video entitled “Circus in ISS orbit,” in which you can watch how the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) spends their free time from work. In the video, the astronauts demonstrate their ability to juggle, success...
A group of Russian engineers and astronautics enthusiasts plans to raise one million rubles on the domestic crowdfunding platform “Boomstarter” and launch a satellite into lunar orbit, which should answer the question that has been troubling the whole world for 45 years: have Americans been on the Moon?...
Roskosmos on its official YouTube channel showed a video of the spacewalk of Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko. The "Space Walk" took place on August 10, 2015. The Russians were outside the space of the International Space Station for five and a half ...
“It's been a difficult year for the people who keep the International Space Station (ISS) running,” notes Justin Bachman in an article for Bloomberg Businessweek. The author recalls the unsuccessful launches of three spacecraft with cargo for the ISS (two American and one Russian), which happened in...
For the first time in history, the crew members of the International Space Station tasted lettuce grown at the station. Experiments with plants in orbit have been carried out for a long time, but until now the results of experiments have always been sent to Earth for further research. The tasting was attended by NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Chell Lindgren, as well as a Japanese astronaut ...
Russian cosmonauts have successfully completed an experiment on growing lettuce in a special Veggie container. This was reported on the NASA website. Valery Korzun and Maxim Suraev managed to grow on the ISS a variety of lettuce belonging to the cabbage family. Within the cycle of experiments "Plants" ...
Cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Samantha Cristoforetti and Terry Werts successfully returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday - their return was delayed by almost a month. The descent module of the Soyuz spacecraft landed in the planned area of Kazakhstan at about 17:00 Moscow time.…
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, using photographic equipment available on board the ISS, photographed the Progress M-30M cargo ship flying 170 km below the station on the night of April 27 and transferred the resulting images to the Mission Control Center (MCC), Interfax was told in space...