Astronauts and Cosmonauts

Mystery of Yuri Gagarin’s Death Solved

By Merryl Azriel on June 18, 2013

First man in space, Yuri Gagarin (left) with fellow cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov, the first man to undertake a spacewalk (Credits: RIA Novosti). Yuri... Read more →

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ExoMars Enters Final Phase of Construction

By Phillip Keane on June 18, 2013

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (Credits: ESA). ESA's ExoMars program has entered the final stage of construction by signing a hardware contract... Read more →

The Russian Launch Failures Of 2010-2014

Accepting the Risk of Death in Spaceflight

By Merryl Azriel on June 17, 2013

Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen have been developing Copenhagen Suborbitals, the open source, backyard endeavor they founded to launch... Read more →

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Cella Energy Hydrogen Pellets: Fuel Storage And Radiation Protection

By Renee Garifi on June 17, 2013

Cella Energy's new hydrogen fuel, in pellet and fiber form (Credits: Cella Energy). Dr. Stephen Perusich, Senior Scientist at Cella Energy’s... Read more →

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ATV-4 Successfully Docks with ISS

By Matteo Emanuelli on June 16, 2013

ATV-4 firing thrusters as it approaches the S3 hold point (Credits: NASA). The European Space Agency’s (ESA) fourth Automated Transfer... Read more →

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“Space girls” 50 years after Valentina

By Tereza Pultarova on June 15, 2013

It’s been fifty years since the first woman in history took off in a tiny Soviet space capsule to spend three days in orbit. Being officially... Read more →