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“Congratulations on winning your 100th cap, an outstanding achievement, but also 68 as captain,” Beaumont said. As for Macovei, the record is immaterial in that he has the same sense of pride in pulling on the jersey now as he did when making his debut 16 years ago. “If you have one cap or 100 caps it is the same feeling.
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Four months earlier, Krikalev, a 33-year-old flight engineer, had set off for the Mir space station from the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is located in Kazakhstan. Krikalev's mission was supposed to last five months, and his training had not prepared him to be in space longer than this. Then the coup d'état happened. "For us, this came as a co...
In fact, he could have left. There was a Raduga re-entry capsule onboard the Mir, which was designed specifically for making the return to Earth. But taking it would have meant the end of Mir since there was no one else left to look after it. "I wondered if I had the strength to survive to complete the program. I was not sure," he said. Muscle atro...
Krikalev finally returned to Earth on March 25, 1992 after Germany paid $24 million to purchase a ticket for his replacement, Klaus-Dietrich Flade. Upon landing, a man with the four letters “USSR” and a red Soviet flag on his spacesuit emerged from the Soyuz capsule. One report described his appearance as "pale as flour and sweaty, like a lump of w...
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Mar 18, 2015 · Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of the world’s first spacewalk, by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. Since then, astronauts have accomplished many milestones beyond the confines of a spacecraft. Today ...
The lack of atmospheric pressure in space had slowly caused his spacesuit to inflate like a balloon. He recalls: Alexei Leonov's leg during the first space walk
Feb 4, 2020 · Kavandi, a crewmember aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-104 mission, celebrated the event on the day her crewmates Michael L. Gernhardt and James F. Reilly conducted their second EVA of the mission to install the Quest airlock onto ISS. Her orbital birthday cake consisted of a lit penlite stuck in a brownie.
Aug 30, 2021 · Several NASA employees and a "Star Trek" actor gathered virtually in a panel to celebrate diversity on what would have been the 100th birthday of the franchise's creator, Gene Roddenberry.
Mar 29, 2023 · In October 2000, the STS-92 mission on Discovery marked the 100th space shuttle mission and also included the 100th spacewalk for the U.S. space program. In a perfect on-time launch at 7:17 p.m. EDT, Space Shuttle Discovery trails a blaze of flame amid clouds of smoke and steam as it leaps into the night sky.
