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During a lengthy spacewalk yesterday, International Space Station commander Sergei Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko removed one of the explosive bolts from the Soyuz TMA-12 capsule, believed to have been the cause for the last two consecutive ballistic re-entries executed by the Soyuz TMA-11 and TMA 10 while... |
11 July 2008
06:31 GMT |
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The only toilet on board the International Space Station allegedly broke last week while in use, when the motor fan suddenly stopped, leaving astronauts with no other option than to use the toilet on board the Soyuz-TMA-12 capsule. The problem is that this particular toilet has limited capacity. Luckily, rescue is at... |
28 May 2008
09:27 GMT |
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As we already know, the last two Soyuz capsules used to return astronauts from the International Space Station executed 'ballistic' re-entries into Earth's atmosphere during descent, possibly endangering the lives of the crew they were carrying. As it turns out, both ships may have suffered from the sa... |
26 May 2008
07:09 GMT |
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Although one month has passed since the return of the Soyuz TMA-11 capsule, carrying on board the crew of the International Space Station's Expedition 16, NASA is just starting to contest the capabilities of the Russian spacecrafts. As you probably already know, the Soyuz TMA-11 returned to Earth on April 19, af... |
19 May 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Last Saturday, the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft carrying the crew of Expedition 16 back to Earth experienced a 'ballistic' re-entry into Earth atmosphere, thus subjecting the crew to forces up to 10 G and putting their lives in serious jeopardy. It was a bumpy ride, one might say, and the second in a row with a ... |
23 April 2008
03:45 GMT |
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Due to a slight glitch, the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft carrying the crew of Expedition 17 back to Earth landed way off target, several hundred miles away from the scheduled landing site. Although experiencing the action of severe G-forces, the crew is said to be safe and do not suffer any permanent medical problems, alb... |
21 April 2008
03:02 GMT |
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On 8 March, a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian astronauts and one South Korean astronaut was sent into space from the Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan. After two days of catching up with the ISS, the spacecraft is expected to dock at the International Space Station today at 9:00 a.m. EDT. The two Russian astrona... |
10 April 2008
06:26 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Russian engineers from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan rolled out the Soyuz rocket, which is supposed to carry two Russian cosmonauts and the first South Korean astronaut to the International Space Station. The 50-meter Soyuz spacecraft will take off from the same launch pad used to send a man in... |
7 April 2008
05:34 GMT |
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You would probably think that space is the last place in the universe where one may find a shotgun. Of course the possibility of that to ever happen is rather slim, but nonetheless it doesn't mean that firearms cannot be found into space. Russian Soyuz capsules have been routinely carrying guns into space for so... |
13 February 2008
05:02 GMT |
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The cargo ship Progress M-63 has been launched yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, in a mission to resupply the International Space Station before the arrival of the Atlantis space shuttle, which is set to launch tomorrow from the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The spacecraft lifted off at 4:03 ... |
6 February 2008
06:45 GMT |
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The month of April will find the first Korean astronaut ever in space on board the International Space Station. During a recent interview, Ko San stated that he would take soil from both South and North Korea into space and mix it in a gesture of unity towards the divided Korean peninsula. The 31-year-old Korean astr... |
16 January 2008
09:31 GMT |
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Since space shuttles cannot be flown into space whenever it is necessary, as we all saw during the Atlantis liftoff attempts early this month, which was scheduled to take the European module Columbus to the International Space Station, and due to the fact that NASA does not own a freight transport vehicle that coul... |
27 December 2007
07:07 GMT |
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Yesterday, the European Space Agency tested the prototype of a new type of rocket motor, named P80, which was designed to propel the future small Vega launcher. The test took place at the Guiana Space Center, in Kourou, at 15:35 GMT. After ignition, the measurements revealed that, in a duration of 111 seconds, the P8... |
5 December 2007
09:01 GMT |
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A recent independent panel report regarding astronauts drinking heavily before launch for the International Space Station creates numerous aftershocks, after NASA officials dismissed the allegation. Now, the Russians are also denying the events.The panel reported that astronauts had been drinking less than 12 hours ... |
30 July 2007
02:52 GMT |
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