'It could illuminate an area the size of a football stadium': How Russia launched a giant space mirror in 1993
The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was ...
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Astronauts on the ISS experience vision changes — should Mars travelers be worried?
According to a new study, 70% of astronauts who have spent between six and 12 months aboard the International Space Station ...
On this date: Endeavour sails over Earth enroute to Mir
Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station. On that mission, Andy Thomas replaced David Wolf as the resident NASA ...
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Russian cosmonaut breaks record for time spent in space
Meanwhile, the record for longest single stay is held by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who lived aboard the Mir space station for 437 days and 18 hours in the mid-1990s. American astronaut ...
Kremlin replaces Russian space boss after tenure scarred by failed moonshot
The Kremlin dismissed the head of Russia's space agency on Thursday after a tenure of less than three years scarred by the ...
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Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Kononenko, smashes the record for the most time spent in orbit - having spent 878 days on the International Space Station
in 1957 - and then Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space in 1961. That distinction belongs to Valeri Polyakov, who lived aboard the Mir space station between ...
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Trump can use Russia’s space program to end the war in Ukraine
As Russian rocket development has stagnated ... Russia was able to maintain cosmonauts in space after the Mir space station ended its operational life. Russia might have offered to participate ...
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On this date: Endeavour sails over Earth enroute to Mir
On this date, Jan. 23, 1998, shuttle Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station. On that mission, Andy Thomas ...