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Astronaut Anne McClain joins all-female spacewalk — 6 years after missing out over suit sizing issue
The first spacewalk was conducted in 1965, by Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Nearly 20 years later, cosmonaut Svetlana ...
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A Rare Look at the Russian Side of the Space Station
When another suit was ready for disposal in 2011 ... “Even without video, the Russian cosmonauts are as busy with work as their American colleagues.” Technical issues aside, some cosmonauts ...
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Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight urges women to shoot for the stars — but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional
For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will fly with only women ...
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Space Station Cosmonaut Dons Alien Mask When Spacecraft Arrives, So It's the First Thing Visitors See When They Open Hatch
Specifically, Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner greeted them while ... astronaut Mark Kelly attempted to send a full-body gorilla suit to his identical twin brother Scott, who was stationed on board ...
A Soyuz capsule with U.S. astronaut, two Russian cosmonauts returns to Earth from the International Space Station
A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut safely landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, concluding a ...
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NASA astronaut arrives at International Space Station aboard Russian spacecraft
Livestream footage showed cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, the station's commander, preparing the hatch for opening. Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, who launched to the ISS last month on the SpaceX ...
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Russian spacecraft brings cosmonauts, astronaut to ISS
A Russian Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) with two Russian cosmonauts and one astronaut from the US space agency NASA on board, Russia's Roscosmos said ...
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Rocket carrying NASA's Jonny Kim, 2 cosmonauts docks with space station
Jonny Kim, a former Navy SEAL, Harvard Medical School graduate and now a NASA astronaut, blasted off with two cosmonaut crewmates aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket early Tuesday, chased down the ...