News tagged with cosmonaut
SpaceX capsule has 'new car' smell, astronauts say (Update)
SpaceX's Dragon cargo vessel smells like a new car, said astronauts at the International Space Station after opening the hatches Saturday following the spacecraft's landmark mission to the orbiting lab.
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May 26, 2012 |
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Russia sends multinational crew to ISS
Russia on Wednesday sent a multinational crew of three astronauts to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Dec 21, 2011 |
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Russia releases Gagarin's secret last words
One of the last things Yuri Gagarin did before making his pioneering voyage into space 50 years ago was make sure he had enough sausage to last him on the trip back home to Moscow.
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Apr 10, 2011 |
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520-day flight simulation nears 'landing' on Mars
After 233 days in a locked steel capsule, six researchers on a 520-day mock flight to Mars are all feeling strong and ready to "land" on the Red Planet, the mission director said Friday.
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Jan 21, 2011 |
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Soyuz carrying Americans, Russian lands
(AP) -- A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Americans and a Russian from the International Space Station touched down Friday in Kazakhstan in a landing that the Russian space program's chief described as ideal.
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Nov 26, 2010 |
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International Space Station crew takes spacewalk
(AP) -- Two Russian cosmonauts conducted a spacewalk on Thursday intended to activate a new segment on the International Space Station so it can dock Russian spacecraft.
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Jan 14, 2010 |
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Circus tycoon clowns around aboard space station
(AP) -- A Canadian circus billionaire boarded the International Space Station on Friday after a smooth ride up from Earth, and promptly played the entertainer by donning a red clown nose for a camera.
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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Delayed spacewalk ends successfully
(AP) -- Two international space station crew members wrapped up a successful spacewalk Friday, the first since the size of the station's crew expanded from three to six last month.
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Jun 05, 2009 |
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Happy US-Russian crew deny 'divorce in space'
A Russian and US space crew denied on Friday that new rules forbid them from sharing toilets and food in orbit, hailing their work as the "best partnership" in human history.
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Apr 10, 2009 |
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Russia delivers three astronauts to ISS
Two Russians and an American joined three colleagues aboard the International Space Station Thursday for a mission that should include receiving the orbiter's first visit from a private spacecraft.
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May 17, 2012 |
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Three-man Soyuz crew departs for space station
(AP) -- A three-man crew blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan Tuesday morning on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a four-and-half-month stay at the International Space Station.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 15, 2012 |
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NASA considering space station for Mars dry run
The International Space Station may provide the setting for a 500-day pretend trip to Mars in another few years.
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Mar 20, 2012 |
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Russia sets sights on Moon, Mars and beyond
Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan presented to the government this month.
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Mar 13, 2012 |
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Most experienced US spacewalker retires
A NASA astronaut who spent more hours walking in space than any other American and also set a record for the longest spaceflight mission has retired to join the private sector, the US space agency said Monday.
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Mar 12, 2012 |
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Soyuz lands safely in Kazakhstan, rattles nerves
(AP) -- A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three returning astronauts from the International Space Station touched down safely Friday in the central steppes of Kazakhstan, but not without rattling nerves after ...
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Sep 16, 2011 |
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Astronaut
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. While generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists.
Until 2003, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military, or by civilian space agencies. However, with the sub-orbital flight of the privately-funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut.
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