Topic: Space Technology
First-time cosmonauts set to blast off with toy duck
AFP Global Edition
Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov brandished a small toy duck Friday as he and his crewmates prepared to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) in April. The tiny toy was picked out by his daughter as an impromptu "weightlessness sensor," said Skvortsov, who will take off from Baikonur on ...
Kazakhstan Space Station
AP News
Soyuz spacecraft lands safely on Kazakh steppe
AP Features
Astronauts from the United States and Russia landed safely in northern Kazakhstan's chilly steppes on Thursday after spending almost six months on the International Space Station. The Russian Soyuz TMA-16 capsule carrying NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Maxim Surayev touched down gently and was then rolled onto its ...
Astronauts return to Earth on Russian spacecraft
AFP Global Edition
A Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut returned to Earth on Thursday from the International Space Station (ISS) after 169 days in space, mission control in Moscow said. "The crew of the Souyz TMA-16 craft is on Earth," it said in a statement, after Jeffrey Williams of the United States ...
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