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First cosmonaut rides European Robotic Arm on International Space Station: video
Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev made history by riding the European Robotic Arm (ERA) during a spacewalk outside the International…
2023-08-10
International Space Station suffers from chronic pressure drop
The Russian space agency Roscosmos reported a pressure drop in one isolated part of the Zvezda service module…
2021-08-02
Russian Nauka module accidentally deviates ISS from its orbit
The day had been a success. On July 29, 2021, after an eight-day trip to space and almost…
2021-08-02
Glitch kills Nauka’s engine, scientists fight to save it
Nauka was launched on July 21, 2021, and intended to dock with the International Space Station on July…
2021-07-23
Music in space: from Jingle Bells to microgravity instruments
One eerie fact about space is that it is a vacuum where sound does not travel. So, it is understandable…
2023-08-24
Is it real? Meet MF-212, an odd modern Hungarian-Belarusian prop fighter
The history of aviation is full of projects that lead to the question: what were they thinking? Such projects…
2022-10-28
International Space Station astronauts return to Earth onboard SpaceX Dragon
European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency…
2021-11-09
Amazon opens US freight hub in Cincinnati
Amazon started operations at its new US air cargo hub in Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) on August…
2021-08-12
Lucky strike: Space debris hits and damages International Space Station
During a routine inspection on May 12, 2021, a small hole was found on the Canadarm2 robotic arm,…
2021-06-01
Europe begins construction of its first shuttle, Space Rider
The European Space Agency (ESA) signed two contracts for the construction of a reusable space shuttle called Space…
2020-12-14