That means the trip is shorter than a standard Moscow to London flight. The three travelers took off from a launch site in Kazakhstan just before noon local time on Wednesday, riding aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. They are expected to dock at the ISS in record time under the new flight …
Read More »Flight Of The Dragon. NASA astronauts arrived at the launch site before the historic launch to ISS
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken arrived to the space centre Kennedy in Florida and began preparing for the historic launch of Dragon spacecraft of the company Space X, which is on Wednesday next week should send them to the International space station. In the past, NASA has always …
Read More »“Maybe a hammer to hit?” The astronauts could not turn the robot on Fedora
Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin said that could barely turn the robot on Fedora, who arrived on August 29 at Mezhdunarodnoe space station. “I turned it on. Just ten-fifteen switched on and off. Here he was involved and even said something”, — quotes its RIA “Novosti” with reference to the broadcast …
Read More »Salaries of employees of Roscosmos, the imagination of astronauts that kind of money never dreamed of
They pay 400 thousand 396 thousand rubles a month was the average salary of an employee of the “Roskosmos”, according to the annual report of the state Corporation. I deliberately made this proposal a mistake. Not in figures, no. First thought when I hear that “Roskosmos” such wages as it …
Read More »The astronauts showed how from space is the Northern lights
This is a must see. 50-year-old American NASA astronaut Randolph (Randy) Breznik, who is the commander of the 53rd International space station crew took the picture of the Northern lights from a space ship. Breznik says that the photo shows one of the largest cities in the States of new …
Read More »The astronauts made a pizza in zero gravity. Video
All the necessary products for cooking pizza was delivered to the ISS. The astronauts of the International space station made a pizza in zero gravity. In the end, all the necessary products for cooking pizza was delivered to the ISS. But the process of cooking was filmed on a video …
Read More »Japanese astronauts sent to the moon
Astronauts will lead to the orbit in 2024-2026. Japan plans to collaborate with NASA to send its astronauts on the lunar surface. Japan wants to participate in the project to create a lunar station, Deep Space Gateway that you want to bring to the orbit of the moon in 2024-2026. …
Read More »NASA astronauts have fun world of wacky fun
The astronauts showed how to have fun in space. International space station astronauts, NASA decided to have a little fun. Their leisure time in conditions of weightlessness, they were videotaped. The video appeared on YouTube-channel NASA Johnson. The video shows astronauts spinning in a variety of ways popular spinner and …
Read More »The astronauts showed a deft tricks with a spinner in space. Video
In the video, the first spinner to float in weightlessness and then starts to spin.NASA astronauts Joseph acaba, Randolph James Breznik, mark Vande Hey and Paolo Nespoli showed how to use the spinner on the ISS in conditions of weightlessness. “Spinner in space! How long it spins? I’m not sure, …
Read More »Scientists have invented a material that will protect astronauts from solar radiation
This material has unusual properties. Open space is not very suitable for life of people the place. But this does not prevent earth scientists to invent new ways to protect the fragile human body against the major hazards of space. Once in space, astronauts experience a number of inconveniences. For …
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