A new trio of Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov, successfully boarded the International Space Station (ISS) overnight. The cosmonauts donned bright-yellow flight suits with blue patches, prompting speculation that their outfit selection was somehow related to the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Multiple Western …
Read More »‘Very demanding place to film’: Veteran cosmonauts speak to RT about challenges faced by first-ever film crew in orbit
Actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko have become the first-ever professional crew to travel to space to make a feature movie during a 12-day trip to the International Space Station (ISS). The project comes as a collaboration between Russia’s TV Channel 1 and the space agency Roscosmos, with RT …
Read More »Disaster of cosmic proportions: Russian cosmonauts share spectacular SPACE PHOTO of La Palma volcano eruption
The image posted by cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy on Twitter captured the volcanic ejection cutting the most north-westerly island of the Canary Islands in half and shining brighter than the illumination of the nearby settlement. The eruption of Cumbre Vieja started on September 19, prompting a massive evacuation on the island …
Read More »Unboxing, space-grade: WATCH Russian cosmonauts enter new ISS lab module Nauka
A brief tour of the module shared online by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky on Saturday offered space enthusiasts a sneak peek at the newly arrived mini-lab. Footage from the International Space Station (ISS) shows Novitsky and his fellow cosmonaut, Pyotr Dubrov, opening the module’s hatch and floating into the Nauka. …
Read More »Accident in orbit! Cosmonauts scramble to right TILTED space station after new Russian module Nauka takes ISS for a spin
Roscosmos announced the docking of ‘Nauka’ on Thursday, the first new Russian component of the ISS in over a decade, which replaced the 20-year-old ‘Pirs.’ Around 16:45 GMT, however, the module’s thrusters began to fire, pushing the ISS about 45 degrees out of its normal rotation. As the station began …
Read More »A chance to chat with cosmonauts: RT to livestream Q&A marking anniversary of 1st manned space flight
But today, just several days before the anniversary of Gagarin’s journey is celebrated on April 12, RT’s guest cosmonauts will be answering questions from the audience about their travels and day-to-day life on the ISS. Посмотреть эту публикацию в Instagram Публикация от RT (@rt) Andrey Borisenko was part of two …
Read More »Cosmonauts to intensify search for leak on ISS amid concerns over DEPLETING oxygen reserves
“Practically, we don’t understand in what part of the intermediate chamber we currently have an extra leak,” a specialist from the Russian Mission Control Center in the town of Korolyov in the Moscow Region told the crew, according to a broadcast by NASA. “Regrettably, we won’t be able to do …
Read More »Whom take in cosmonauts? Rogozin and Urgant bet
The head of “Roskosmos” Dmitry Rogozin told a joke TV presenter Ivan Urgant on lowering the requirements for candidates to cosmonauts. Your opinion Rogozin published on Twitter. As noted on Twitter, the head of “Roskosmos” if eight years of almost daily news entertainment, “not only jokes and humor will end, …
Read More »That took with him into orbit Soviet cosmonauts. Photo
The kit was developed in 1968. While NASA nearly 20 years developing space ice-cream in the USSR worked on this. This survival kit NAZ-7 (untouchable emergency reserve). It was developed in 1968 to ship Soyuz, the reliable workhorse of space flight which is still in use today. The set consisted …
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