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Football: Steely Fomenko leads Ukraine to Euro 2016

Edit The Times of India 11 May 2016
Kiev, May 11, 2016 (AFP) -. Drilled in Soviet discipline, Mykhalylo Fomenko has taken a no-frills Ukraine side to the European Championship finals giving hope to a country at war. As a teenager, Fomenko was plucked from a machine plant team and virtually forced to become one of Dynamo Kiev's most influential players of the 1970s ... Fomenko gained 24 caps in all ... His last job had been with Russian second-tier side Salyut Belgorod ... ....

Khrunichev Space Center Celebrates 100 Years of Service (ILS - International Launch Services Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Apr 2016
(Source. ILS - International Launch Services Inc). Khrunichev Press Center. Khrunichev Center - 100 YEARS OF SERVICE. 04/30/2016 ... 'The second car factory' was called Russo-Balt ' ... - Orbital space station ( 'Diamond', 'Salyut-1, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7') and the transport ship supply for them; ... - Modules of the Russian segment of the ISS, on which work began in 1998 with the launch of the module 'Zarya', developed by KB 'Salyut'; ... MV Khrunichev. ....

RSC Energia: 20 years ago the last module was launched to the Mir Station (OAO RKK Energiya im SPKoroleva)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source. OAO RKK Energiya im SPKoroleva). RSC Energia ... The Mir orbital station embodied the great experience of NPO Energia (now RSC Energia) work on the Salyut orbital stations, became a unique platform to develop innovative technologies which later were required to develop the International Space Station (ISS) and also for other perspective developments in the field of manned space flights ... (noodl....

RSC Energia: 45 years since the launch of the world’s first orbital station (OAO RKK Energiya im SPKoroleva)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
Exactly 45 years ago on April 19, 1971 the Proton launch vehicle with the Salyut orbital station was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome ... Initially it was the station name but the press renamed it as Salyut as China has already used this name for the Chinese satellite. The launch of long-duration orbital station №1 Salyut laid the foundation for ......

The tragic triumph of the world's largest concert

Edit CNN 05 Apr 2016
(CNN)It was a night to remember. 1.3 million people crammed in city parks and pavements, blocking highways and craning their necks for a glimpse of the largest concert the world had ever seen, all in celebration of NASA ... But someone was missing. The concert had been due to climax with something totally unique ... JUST WATCHED ... U.S ... The Soviet program had launched their first space station, Salyut, in 1971, and it stayed in space for 15 years....

The Politics of Space Exploration

Edit Huffington Post 23 Mar 2016
Human kind is poised on the launch pad of the most exciting, transformational age of space exploration since the orbiting of Sputnik started it all, back in 1957. Despite the forces that are unleashing a race to the stars unlike any we have seen, the subject of space exploration and utilization has been conspicuously absent from the U.S. presidential campaigns ... The Soviets responded by flying the first space stations, the Salyut series....

Academician Boris Evseevich Chertok is 104 years (OAO RKK Energiya im SPKoroleva)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Mar 2016
They were designed under the programs for the Soyuz, Progress spacecraft, Salyut and Mir orbital stations, the Russian Segment of the International Space Station ... and upper stages for lunar programs L1, N1-L3, for launch vehicle N1, Salyut, Mir stations, Gamma astrophysical orbital module, Energia-Buran reusable space system and the Buran orbiter....

Mars One releases book about the human aspects of Mars exploration (Mars One)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Feb 2016
(Source. Mars One). Amersfoort, 23 February 2016 - You may not be able to go to Mars yourself, but thanks to Mars One's latest book, everyone can follow along as the first potential human settlers on Mars prepare for their mission. With Mars One ... Kass, PhD, and Raye Kass, PhD, Mars One ... Dr ... Mason Peck, Prof ... Dr ... Dr ... Dr ... He has also worked with cosmonauts of the former Salyut space station and astronauts of the first US space station, Skylab....

Mir Set A Precedent For Collaboration In Space – But Its Legacy Is Now At Risk

Edit IFL Science 22 Feb 2016
From 1971 to 1986 the Soviet Union launched the Salyut Programme and America launched their own space station, Skylab. These were small with a single module for science laboratories ... This was officially launched on February 19 1986 and the first crew arrived in 1987 ... But aside from this symbolic act and a few foreign visitors to the Salyut station, it was MIR that really kick-started regular international collaboration in space ... NASA ... ....

This Scam Email About A Nigerian Astronaut Lost In Space Is Hilarious

Edit IFL Science 16 Feb 2016
An estranged super-rich prince asking you for some money is part and parcel of the Internet experience ... But at a time where everybody can spot a fishy email scam, one conman has upped his game ... “Dear Mr. Sir, ... I am Dr ... He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989 ... ....

Nigerian astronaut lost in space needs $3m to get home - could be a scam

Edit Topix 07 Feb 2016
Subject. Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home Dr. Bakare Tunde Astronautics Project Manager National Space Research and Development Agency Plot 555 Misau Street PMB 437 Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979 ... ....

ROSKOSMOS. ISS Russian Segment Is to Have a Greenhouse Once Again (OAO RKK Energiya im ...

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jan 2016
(Source. OAO RKK Energiya im SPKoroleva). ROSKOSMOS. ISS Russian Segment Is to Have a Greenhouse Once Again January 21, 2016 ... There are plans to deliver the new hothouse to the station as early as late 2016 - early 2017 ... As early as 1979, space station Salyut-6 had its first 'space' flowers - in 30 days tulip bulbs sprouted up to 50 cm and reached the flower-bud formation stage ... were not automatic) ... ROSKOSMOS Press Service ... (noodl....
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File - NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this selfie with the second crop of red romaine lettuce in August of 2015.

Astronaut nurses zinnia to full bloom after mold invasion

Edit Jakarta Post 20 Jan 2016
The International Space Station now has a bright pop of orange, thanks to commander Scott Kelly's green thumb. Kelly showed off his gardening results — a thriving zinnia with a beautiful orange-yellow bloom — over the weekend. He posted photos of the flower on his Twitter account ... The Russians hold claim to the first flower in space, aboard the Soviet Salyut space stations of the 1970s and 1980s ... (kes) Tweet ....
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