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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti trains in Extravehicular Activity (EVA) and the Russian segment of the International Space Station at Roscosmos's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. October 2021.
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Credit: GCTC
...E tutto sommato provo a starci dentro...
...Io, aspetterò
Finché arriverà il mio momento
Stammi accanto
Col pensiero tu, tu stammi accanto...
nhq202103200014 (March 20, 2021) --- Expedition 65 crew member Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, is seen during Soyuz qualification exams Saturday, March 20, 2021, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, in advance of his scheduled launch April 9 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, is welcomed home by his wife at the Chkalovsky Airport in Star City, Russia several hours after he and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly landed their Soyuz spacecraft in a remote area outside the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Kelly and Kornienko completed an International Space Station record year-long mission to collect valuable data on the effect of long duration weightlessness on the human body that will be used to formulate a human mission to Mars. Volkov returned after spending six months on the station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 64 crew members Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, left, Kate Rubins of NASA ,center, and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos arrive for Soyuz qualification exams Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, in advance of their scheduled launch October 14 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, left, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui wait for , Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko to don his Russian sokol suit as they participate in the second day of qualification exams, Thursday, May 7, 2015 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. The Expedition 44/45 trio is preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Foggy winter day, just after sunset. Had to "massage" the hell out of the file to get it look how it felt on the field...
nhq202103220012 (March 22, 2021) --- Expedition 65 backup crew members NASA astronaut Anne McClain, left, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos arrive for Soyuz qualification exams Monday, March 22, 2021, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, in advance of the Expedition 65 launch April 9 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
Expedition 47 crew members: NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin of Roscosmos meet with mission managers ahead of their Soyuz qualification exams, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
nhq202009230018 (Sept. 23, 2020) --- Expedition 64 crew members Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos, left, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, center, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, right, pose for a photo during Soyuz qualification exams Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Irina Spector)
Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov (left) and astronaut Thomas P. Stafford take part in Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) joint crew training at the Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City) near Moscow. They are inside a Soviet Soyuz orbital module trainer. The two men were the commanders of their respective ASTP prime crews. ASTP was a cooperative space mission between the United States and the USSR. The goals of ASTP were to test the ability of American and Soviet spacecraft to rendezvous and dock in space and to open the doors to possible international rescue missions and future collaboration on manned spaceflights. The Soyuz and Apollo crafts launched from Baikonur and the Kennedy Space Center respectively, on July 15, 1975. The two spacecraft successfully completed the rendezvous and docking on July 17th. While the Soyuz craft returned to Earth on July 21st, the Apollo craft stayed in space another 3 days, landing on July 24th in the Pacific Ocean. ASTP was a success, as not only did crews accomplish the rendezvous and docking, but they also performed in-flight intervehicular crew transfers and various scientific experiments.
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Image Number: S75-25617
Date: April 25, 1975
nhq202103240018 (March 24, 2021) --- Expedition 65 crew members NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, pose for a photo at a press conference prior to their launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti trains in Extravehicular Activity (EVA) and the Russian segment of the International Space Station at Roscosmos's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. October 2021.
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Credit: GCTC
Brig. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford (left), veteran of 3 US space flights, "flew" the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft simulator with Maj. Gen. Andriyan G. Nikolayev, veteran of two Soviet Space flights, during General Stafford's visit to Moscow as part of a U.S. group working on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), which launched July 15, 1975. During a visit to Star City, the Soviet cosmonaut center, General Stafford performed several terminal phase rendezvous in the Soyuz simulator and docked with the Salyut space station. General Stafford, Deputy Director of Flight Crew Operations at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), flew on Gemini 6 and 9 and on Apollo 10 missions. General Nikolayev, who has visited MSC, flew in Space aboard Vostok 3 and Soyuz 9. His wife, Valentina Tereshkova, was the first woman to ever fly in space.
Credit: NASA
Image Number:72-H-1549
Date: October 17, 1972
Expedition 47 prime and backup crew members depart the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) museum, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Russian Sokol suit gloves are seen ready for Expedition 47 crew members: NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, and Alexei Ovchinin of Roscosmos on the final day of their Soyuz qualification exams, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
and we met again...showed my other pics of this very same bus to its driver...sabi nya..."andami ko na palang pictures sa iyo!"
Expedition 49 prime and backup crew members depart the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) museum on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 in Star City, Russia. The crew visited the museum as part of their traditional prelaunch ceremonies. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden walks inside a mockup of the Russian segment of the International Space Station during a tour of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) on Friday, March 25, 2016, in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/AubreyGemignani)
Reliving historic moments at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, former Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov (top row, 2nd from the left) and former NASA astronaut Thomas Stafford (top row, 3rd from the left) join other members of the Stafford-Utkin Advisory Commission visiting Russia during a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz mission that opened a new era of space cooperation between the U.S. and Russia. Stafford commanded the Apollo spacecraft and Leonov commanded the Soyuz 19 spacecraft that docked on July 17, 1975 in the first-ever linkup of American and Russian space vehicles. At the lower left is cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, the Director of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
Credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
nhq201707070019 (July 7, 2017) --- Expedition 52 flight engineers Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, Randy Bresnik of NASA, and Paolo Nespoli of ESA are in the Soyuz simulator for their final Soyuz qualification exam, Friday, July 7, 2017 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
I hadn't expected India's Vihari to survive until the tea break in the third test. Despite a hamstring injury, after tea he started to look solid although why didn't he have a runner, which would have allowed India to entertain prospects of a record win. Of course, a runner would have added to the opportunities to get run out...
At 5-272 India were in danger of losing, the most likely result on the fifth day, so Vihari's and Ashwin's effort to keep the Australians out for another 43 overs was exceptional. Notwithstanding that if Paine caught Pant early on (three chances but Pant scored 97), the series could have been decided here.
Australia's opener issues mean Warner playing, although he seems far from match fit. Both openers could wear red Star Trek uniforms. But Labuschagne is having a good series, and the Australian bowlers' cartel has remained strong. There's a bit of debate about whether Cummins, Starc, Hazelwood and Lyon are Australia's best attack ever. I'd go for McGrath, Gillespie, Lee and Warne myself.
India has had an unfortunate injury count. Their entire front line bowling attack (Bumrah, Shami, Yadav, Jadeja, Ashwin) are all unable to play in the next test. Only Pujara and Rahane will play all the Tests in the series.
Sightscreens have grown from a wooden square to now include a massive drape (the red ball stands out against the white background, simplifying the batsman's job of sighting a ball travelling at 145km/h). That doesn't stop batsmen holding up play if spectators (or 'security') move close to it!
Expedition 47 NASA astronaut Jeff Williams looks at a Russian space suit during a visit to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) museum, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
nhq202103240028 (March 24, 2021) --- Expedition 65 backup crew member Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos speaks during a press conference prior to the prime crew’s launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Irina Spector)
Expedition 64 backup crew member Petr Dubrov of Roscosmos arrives for Soyuz qualification exams Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
nhq201707070018 (July 7, 2017) --- Expedition 52 flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA turns a dial inside the Soyuz simulator during his final Soyuz qualification exam with fellow Expedition 52 flight engineers Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, and Paolo Nespoli of ESA, Friday, July 7, 2017 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 65 crew members NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, left, Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, listen during a press conference prior to their launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Irina Spector)
nhq201707070017 (July 7, 2017) --- Expedition 52 flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA is seen inside the Soyuz simulator during his final Soyuz qualification exam with fellow Expedition 52 flight engineers Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, and Paolo Nespoli of ESA, Friday, July 7, 2017 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
nhq202009230011 (Sept. 23, 2020) --- Expedition 64 crew member Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos is seen during Soyuz qualification exams Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, in advance of his scheduled launch October 14 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
A crowd of officials, family and media welcome home Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos at the Chkalovsky Airport in Star City, Russia several hours after they and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly landed their Soyuz spacecraft in a remote area outside the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Kelly and Kornienko completed an International Space Station record year-long mission to collect valuable data on the effect of long duration weightlessness on the human body that will be used to formulate a human mission to Mars. Volkov returned after spending six months on the station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) Leading Suit Engineer Ivan F. Kruchkov poses for a photograph with the Sokol launch and landing suits used by cosmonauts and astronauts during training, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at GCTC in Star City, Russia.
Kruchkov was Yuri Gagarin’s first pilot instructor at the Orenburg military pilot school in 1956 and 1957. For the last 25 years Kruchkov has worked at GCTC with Sokol spacesuits. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 64 backup crew members NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Petr Dubrov of Roscosmos arrive for Soyuz qualification exams Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow, Russia, 19 June 2019 wearing the Sokol suit he will wear when he is launched to the International Space Station. Sokol suits, tailored to each astronaut, are worn in the Soyuz spacecraft as protection against air leaks.
Luca is training for his Beyond mission which will see him return to the International Space Station in 2019 as part of Expedition 60/61, alongside NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov.
Luca was the first of ESA’s 2009 astronaut class to fly to the International Space Station. His first mission Volare, meaning 'to fly' in Italian, took place in 2013 and lasted 166 days. Luca conducted two spacewalks and many experiments that are still running today.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Roanoke Star
The Roanoke Star, also known as the Mill Mountain Star, and the Hollywood sign of the East Coast, is the world's largest freestanding illuminated man-made star, constructed in 1949 at the top of Mill Mountain in Roanoke, Virginia. After construction of the star, Roanoke was nicknamed "Star City of the South". It is visible for 60 miles (97 km) from the air and it sits 1,045 feet (319 m) above the city of Roanoke.
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