On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space. This was the first time cosmonauts completed zero-G training on an airplane.

We are sad to learn of the passing German cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn on 21 September in Strausberg, Germany, at the age of 82. As a former GDR citizen, Sigmund trained as a cosmonaut in the Soviet Union ...

In January 2025, Maxim Kharlamov, the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center, said that over its 65-year history, approximately 400 cosmonauts have been trained at the center MOSCOW, March 14. /TASS/.

The cosmonaut training centre : birth and growth -- Simulators -- Other national and international facilities -- Survival training -- The cosmonaut group of the RGNII TsPK -- The cosmonaut group of ...

Taktika pencils used by Alexei Leonov on board Voskhod 2 (1965), and the first drawing created in space (© Museum of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre) LONDON — The first human to spacewalk ...

Not only entire Belarus but also entire Russia watched the first Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya’s space flight for two weeks. And the rest of the world would occasionally glance with ...

Vienna, Va. — January 21, 2008 — Space Adventures, Ltd., the world’s leading space experiences company, announced today that famed game developer Richard Garriott, son of former NASA astronaut Owen ...

NASA astronauts Richard Arnold, Andrew Feustel and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev are seen inside the Soyuz MS-08 space capsule shortly after landing in a remote area outside the town of ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and his two cosmonaut colleagues have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Kim, Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky docked ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky landed on Russia's Soyuz MS-27 on Dec. 9, 2025, after 245 days on the International Space Station.

A Russian cosmonaut was removed from an upcoming mission to the International Space Station after he allegedly took pictures of a SpaceX rocket’s engines and classified documents, according to reports ...

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and crew are preparing to depart the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft.