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  1. 5 days ago · Photo: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. The Soyuz TMA-M is the latest version in the series of Russian Soyuz Spacecraft that are currently used to Transport Crew to and from the International Space Station. The Soyuz Program dates back to 1966 when the first unmanned flight was performed.

  2. 2 days ago · Only one Indian has been to space before him – Rakesh Sharma, who flew as a professional cosmonaut to space on board Soyuz T-11 in 1984, as part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme ...

  3. May 13, 2024 · Photo: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Aidyn Aimbetov, born July 27, 1972 in the village of Zaria Kommunizma, Kazakh-SSR, is a Kazakh Cosmonaut for the Kazakh Space Agency Kazcosmos. He will become the fourth Kazakh Cosmonaut to fly to space, conducting a short-duration visit to the International Space Station in 2015.

  4. 22 hours ago · In 1961, Soviet Vostok 1 cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to enter space and orbit the Earth, and in 1969 American Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon. No human has traveled beyond low Earth orbit since 1972, when the Apollo program ended.

  5. 10 hours ago · This week’s Sci-Five quiz is on the first human to enter space. Published - May 23, 2024 05:17 pm IST. Arkatapa Basu. READ LATER. PRINT. This is a Premium Article, available exclusively to our ...

  6. 22 hours ago · In the first squad. Valentin Bondarenko’s life path before joining the cosmonaut corps was generally the same as Gagarin’s. He was born into a working-class family in 1937 (three years younger than Gagarin), and like Gagarin, he survived the German occupation in his childhood and lived with his family in Kharkov.

  7. 22 hours ago · Sat 16th Jul 1994, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM. Roger Stennett's play is based on the real-life story of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev. On board the Soviet space station MIR, 200 miles above the Earth, cosmonaut Sergei Rasskazov is preparing to return home after 376 days in space. But while he's been away the old Soviet Union has collapsed, and with it ...

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