Another would-be space tourist might make trip to ISS in 2017
A next space tourist may head to the International Space Station next year, a source in the rocket-and-space sector told TASS. “Negotiations are underway with a foreign participant in a space flight about the possibility of his short-term trip to the ISS,” the source said. Space Adventures, a company that provides these services, declined to comment to Tass. The press service of the Roscosmos space corporation told...
Technical malfunction behind postponed launch of Soyuz MS-02 to ISS detected
The technical malfunction that led to the postponement of the Soyuz MS-02 manned spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), has been detected and will be fixed, Vladimir Solntsev, the director general of the space rocket corporation Energia told TASS on Wednesday. The Soyuz MS-02 manned spacecraft, carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko, as well as US astronaut Robert Shane Kimbrough, was initially...
Russia’s Workhorse Soyuz Space Taxi Gets a Makeover
When a fresh Russian-American-Japanese crew blasts off toward the International Space Station on Wednesday evening (July 6), the team’s first task will be to try out a new version of the legendary Soyuz spacecraft. Russian pilot Anatoly Ivanishin, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, and Japanese flight engineer Takuya Onishi will take a two-day test drive aboard the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft before docking at the space station on Friday....
New space crew gets on board ISS
The crew of a new series’ Soyuz MS, which earlier docked the International Space Station, opened the hatches and got onboard the station, the Mission Control Center told TASS on Saturday (July 9). “The hatches are open,” the Center said. Earlier the center said that the docking took place in a normal mode, at the estimated time. The estimated time was 07:12 Moscow Time, but the docking occurred at 07:06. The crew unites...
Partners in ISS project agree to design lunar orbital station
Partners in the International Space Station project have drafted a scenario for building an international circumlunar periodically tended platform that will mark the first step towards exploration of remote space, Irina Romanova, the chief press officer of the Energiya space corporation told Izvestia daily. “Discussions of a possible configuration of the platform and requirements towards it elements and interfaces have...
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