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Valentina Tereshkova – the first woman-cosmonaut in the world, Hero of the Soviet Union, candidate of technical sciences, professor of the Air Force Engineering Academy, Major General of Aviation, celebrates her birthday today.
On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova made her legendary flight on the Vostok-6 spaceship, opening the era of space exploration by the beautiful half of humanity.
RussianSpaceNews.com sincerely wishes Chayka a Happy Birthday, health, happiness, prosperity and long life!
On May 6, 2015 of 44/45 mission main and back-up crew started passing complex examinational trainings in GCTC. The back-up crew comprising Yuri Malenchenko (Roscosmos),…
Russian cargo vehicle Progress M-21M successfully carried out ISS rendezvous maneuver testing a new “Kurs-NA” docking system. After this maneuver the spaceship retreated to a…
At the Baikonur cosmodrome the preparation for the launch of the “Soyuz MS-13” spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) is in process. Today spacecraft…
Italian woman-astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti bet continuous space flight duration record among women, – European Space Agency reports. “Since June 6, 14.21 GMT (17.21, Moscow time)…
Ahead of the ISS-63 crews are complex examination exercises. Before cosmonauts and astronauts need to undergo a typical flight day training. This is a “test…
This Friday, on January 10, 2014 MCC specialists took a decision on unscheduled spacewalks to be performed on January 27 or 28 by Russian crew…
Proton-M with Russian communication satellite Express-AM8 will be launched on Monday evening, September 14, – Roscosmos representative stated. This will be the second launch of…
Soyuz rockets launched from Vostochny spaceport will be equipped with onboard video control system observing rocket’s behavior in space (particularly stage separation) as well as…
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We are glad to present our new program «Videoconference with a cosmonaut».
Due to this videoconference you will see a real cosmonaut online and will be able to talk to him.
New program will enable you to learn a lot of interesting facts directly from a space mission crew member.
The form of videoconference enables to arrange both tete-a-tete chat or group meeting.
Such unique program as «Videoconference with a cosmonaut» will give you a chance to get the answers to all your space-related questions!
