Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov donned a space suit and left the spacecraft while the other cosmonaut, Pavel Belyayev, remained inside. Leonov began his spacewalk 90 minutes into the mission at the end of the first orbit.

The International Space Station is a stronghold of the mankind on the orbit. It goes round the Earth 16 times a day at the height of about 400 km. The ISS is the largest flying object, designed by leading space countries.

Soviet space shuttle Buran was ahead of his time and in most criteria left American “space-shuttle” system, behind, – as…

On August 10, 2003 the weather in Huston in the state of Texas appeard to be warm but according to…

The year 2013 is of great importance for Russian cosmonautics as in June we celebrate 50th anniversary of the first…

April 23, 1967 – Soyuz-1 spacecraft was launched into orbit. Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Komarov was a test…

Birthday of cosmonaut Georgi Beregovoy was celebrated in Donetsk lands. He was the only person in the Russian space team…

Salyut 2 (OPS-1) was a Soviet space station which was launched on April 3, 1973. It was the first Almaz…