Russian cosmonaut, Andrei Fedyaev, is going to go to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2023 on the US Crew Dragon spacecraft, as reported by Russia’s space agency Roscosmos on Tuesday. It is specified that the launch of the Falcon-9 rocket is scheduled from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In addition to a
Today, on April 12, cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov, who are on board the International Space Station (ISS), received gifts for Cosmonautics Day. Presents from relatives were placed in boxes in advance, signed and delivered on a spaceship. On the eve of the holiday, the cosmonauts took them out of the stowage,
The descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, on board of which are cosmonauts of Roscosmos, Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, as well as NASA astronaut, Mark Vande Hei, landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Rescuers went to the descent vehicle and helped the crew members get out. In total, about 200 specialists, 12 Mi-8
Roscosmos cosmonauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, opened the exit hatch of the Poisk module of the International Space Station (ISS) and began the first spacewalk in 2022 as part of the work on the integration of the Prichal node module. The commander and flight engineer of the 66th long-term expedition to the ISS
The first stage of training in the US as part of the cross-flight programme has ended and the next training will be held only next year, according to the Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina. The young woman will be the first Russian cosmonaut to join the crew of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. “The preparation is carried
The Russian crew of the International Space Station (ISS) will prepare a herring under a fur coat for the New Year’s table, according to the cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov. “We even have black caviar, tangerines, we are going to make with Pyotr ourselves a herring under a fur coat,” Shkaplerov shared their plans for the festive
Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will open the programme of cross-flights of Roscosmos and NASA. Kikina’s flight to the International Space Station (ISS) will take place in 2022 on the Crew Dragon ship of Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. “We assume that our cosmonaut Kikina will carry out her first flight in 2022, and we think that
Yesterday, on December 8, it was reported that the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft with the crew of the 20th expedition to the ISS at 4.40 pm Moscow time docked to the Small Research Module “Poisk” of the Russian segment. First time in 12 years space tourists arrived at the station. The meeting was carried out
The Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, carrying TASS cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano, launched from site No. 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The ship has been put into orbit. The meeting with the ISS will take place according to a four-turn scheme and will take
The Progress M-UM cargo ship with the Prichal node module for the International Space Station (ISS) was put into orbit today, on November 24, as the ‘Roscosmos’ State Space Corporation reports. It is planned that Prichal will be the last module that Russia will introduce into its ISS segment. The flight of the module
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirms the possibility of organizing flights by Russian cosmonauts aboard US spaceships and NASA astronauts on board Soyuz spacecraft, according to the International Space Station (ISS) Programme Manager Joel Montalbano. “We are trying to […] have the backups: on […] Soyuz vehicle we will have an astronaut,
Russian cosmonauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, who are currently onboard the International Space Station (ISS), congratulated the Russians on National Unity Day, which is celebrated today, on November 4. “With this holiday, we pay tribute to the memory of the long-standing events of 1612, when, in a single spiritual and military impulse, the
The Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences plans to test the protection of cosmonauts from radiation in interplanetary flights on the ISS “Nauka” (“Science”) module in 2023, as reported by the MK.ru with reference to the Head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the Institute of Space Research Igor Mitrofanov. Thanks to the
