As he circled the earth in his Soyuz 4 spacecraft last week, Russian Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov looked down toward central Asia to watch a tiny billow of flame and smoke. It was Soyuz 5 ...
The capsule would soon rendezvous and dock to the Soyuz 4 capsule becoming – as the Soviet’s declared – the world’s first space station. During the mission, two cosmonauts performed a ...
Nevertheless, on Sept. 18, 1980, Méndez made history as part of Soyuz-38 alongside fellow cosmonaut Yuriy Romanenko. They docked at the Salyut-6 Space Station on Sept. 18, and it was Méndez who first ...
The capsule would soon rendezvous and dock to the Soyuz 4 capsule becoming – as the Soviet’s declared – the world’s first space station. During the mission, two cosmonauts performed a spacewalk from ...
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 ...
Soyuz 17, carrying soviet cosmonauts Aleksei Gubarev and Georgi Grechko, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This mission was the first long-duration stay aboard the Salyut 4 ...