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He would have recognized a buddy! :lol:

Here's what Samantha Cristoforetti (ESA Astronaut now in traning for an actual mission) has to say on the movie: https://plus.google.com/+SamanthaCristoforetti/posts/eLfr3ND1iid https://plus.google.com/+SamanthaCristoforetti/posts/KJ6n9HojWiL...

Yup, a part of the Tsar-the-Bomb project. :lol:

In Moscow English speakers can have hard time calling and understanding subway (the Metro) destination and line crossing stations even if they use Latin transliterations which can be found at the modern day Metro maps typed in small font under Russian titles. Someone have prepared this...

One very full and recent presentation on Venera-D is available here (in English): http://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/Nov2012/presentations/13_VeneraD_Zasova.pdf There's no rover there, of course. Actually, I'm not holding breathe, because we've got coming: - an imminent USA default leading to the...

Always to be remembered as a hero. :salute:

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131010/184053658/Russia-Appoints-New-Space-Chief.html Russia Appoints New Space Chief 19:02 10/10/2013 Originally published at 17:33 MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) – Former Deputy Defense Minister Oleg Ostapenko will head up Russia’s Federal Space Agency, Prime...

http://www.dkvartal.ru/news/kosmicheskoj-promyshlennostyu-v-rossii-budet-rukovodit-glava-avtovaza-igor-komarov-236797714 CEO of Lada car producer will head entire Russian space industry. 07.10.2013 09:01 The Cabinet and Executive Office of the President of Russia have decided on who shall...

Thank you, guys! :)

Attention big, mean, hostile alien vessel hovering overhead in an obvious attack posture: This is Spathi Captain Fwiffo. I know you are going to torture me, so let's just get this over with right now. The coordinates of my homeworld, Spathiwa, are 241.6, 368.7, and the ultra-secret Spathi...

Two crews joint photo. :lol:

Have a good flight, Pulsars!

"Ключ на старт!"

Thanks, GalP. I can't promise to be on for every single Russian launch, but I will try to support the most remarkable ones which are to come. I'm spending lot of time on amateur book publishing this year, sorry about paying too little attention to O-F. To make it less off-topic, I love the...

It's going to be a very special expedition for me. I have been following Sergey Ryazansky in his blogs since 2005, and I have got many friends who are also his friends (we didn't meet in person ourselves, though). I also met Oleg Kotov personally few years ago, before his previous expedition...

A great name for a roller coaster.

I know a guy who is an aircraft engineer and works in Moscow branch of Boeing, they are mostly busy with the Dreamliner blueprints, so are you sure you are talking of different things? :rofl:

Can I read the story from the beginning somehow?

Late by 20 years, after taking a wrong education line. They'll only consider me for a backyard cleaning position.