One doesn’t simply poke inside a hole in a spacecraft during a spacewalk. The orbital operation required a lot of knife-work and struggle with a medical tool, but one piece of evidence was still lost beyond the stars. On Tuesday, Sergey Prokopyev and Oleg Kononenko performed an extraordinary mission outside the Soyuz MS-09, currently docked […]
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Russian cosmonauts will walk on the moon in early 2030s
Russian cosmonauts will set foot on the moon for the first time in the early 2030s as part of an ambitious project to set up a base on the surface of Earth’s satellite, a roadmap by Russia’s spacecraft maker, Energia, revealed. The landing will be preceded by a launch of an unmanned lunar module in […]
Space barbershop: Russian cosmonauts trim & count white hair after Soyuz depressurization (VIDEO)
It turns out Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev has grayed quite a bit following the drop in air pressure on board the ISS, his colleague has discovered, while giving the commander of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft a haircut. In his latest enlightening video report from aboard the International Space Station, cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has detailed the […]
Author of Russian cosmonauts’ unofficial anthem dies at 85
Vladimir Voynovich, Russian author, poet, journalist and dissident, who wrote the lyrics for the unofficial anthem of Russian cosmonauts “14 minutes to lift-off” has died from a heart attack, his family reported. Voynovich is also known for his satirical trilogy “The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin” and for his dystopian novel “Moscow […]