French artists’ Victor Ash’s Astronaut Cosmonaut has achieved a cult mural status for Berlin. It is one of the most pictured murals in Berlin – a legend! Standing in Berlin-Kreuzberg near Kottbusser ...
Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...
STAR CITY /Moscow Region/, December 24. /TASS/. Each of the six Belarusian female cosmonaut candidates who will be recognized as medically fit will go into space, President of Belarus Alexander ...
On 24 April 1967, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first man to die in space. The Soviet Union mourned the loss of a hero when it heard the Soyuz 1 mission was a failure. Some say Komarov ...
On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...
cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...
The film is dedicated to the dramatic fate of cosmonaut Grigory Nelyubov. He was the second understudy of Yuri Gagarin, had a certificate of cosmonaut number 3. But he never flew into space.