Before the launch, the robot Fedor repeated the famous phrase of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - “Let's go.” The Russian Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft carrying the anthropomorphic robot Fedor. The rocket took off from the 31st launch pad of the cosmodrome...
British astronaut Tim Peak filmed a short video demonstrating the work of the toilet on the International Space Station. He explained that everyone is constantly asking astronauts how this happens. Peak showed the tube, which is needed to cope with a small need. To use the tube, you need to open the lid and unscrew the tap that activates ...
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 ...
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 NASA astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS) showed a photograph of the United States. It shows the "night lights" of the country before dawn. Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko on September 15 marked the middle of their annual mission to the ISS (for comparison, a regular mission lasts from four ...
Ukraine, together with companies from the United States, intends to create a launch vehicle without Russian participation. Chairman of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Lyubomir Szabados announced this on Thursday, September 3. “Our visit today and discussion with representatives of American business allow us to say that we are capable...
“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...
On board the International Space Station, astronauts set up an experiment to show how an effervescent tablet would behave in zero gravity when in contact with water. The experiment was carried out by astronaut Terry Wirths. In zero gravity, the water took the shape of a ball. After contact with the tablet, a reaction began. Bubbles flew ...
In the aftermath of the Falcon 9 crash, there is a danger that astronauts flying to the ISS will have unplanned equipment and power difficulties. The Falcon 9 rocket with cargo for the ISS launched the day before, on Sunday, June 28, and after 2 minutes 19 ...
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.…