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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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nhq202009220002 (Sept. 22, 2020) --- Expedition 64 backup crew member Oleg Novitskiy 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)
ESA astronaut Tim Peake during his last Soyuz spacecraft training before launch, in Star City, Moscow.
On 15 December, Tim and fellow Expedition 46-47 crew members NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko are scheduled to liftoff from Baikonur Cosmodrome and make the journey to the International Space Station where they will stay until June 2016.
Tim's mission is named Principia, after Isaac Newton’s ground-breaking Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which describes the principal laws of motion and gravity. He will perform more than 30 scientific experiments for ESA and take part in numerous others from ESA’s international partners.
ESA and the UK Space Agency have partnered to develop many exciting educational activities around the Principia mission, aimed at sparking the interest of young children in science and space.
Connect with Tim on social media at: timpeake.esa.int
Follow the Principia mission at: www.esa.int/principia
Credits: UKSA-Max Alexander
nhq202103240006 (March 24, 2021) --- Expedition 65 prime crew member Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos waves during a press conference prior to his 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/Andrey Shelepin)
nhq202009220015 (Sept. 22, 2020) --- Expedition 64 crew members NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, left, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos arrive for Soyuz qualification exams Tuesday, Sept. 22, 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/Irina Spector)
Expedition 64 backup crew member Oleg Novitskiy 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)
nhq201608310006 (08/31/2016) --- Expedition 49 NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough dons his Russian Sokol suit ahead of the Soyuz qualification exams with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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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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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Expedition 47 crew members: NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, left, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos walk out to meet with management on their final day of Soyuz qualification exams, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
nhq202103260009 (March 26, 2021) --- Family of Expedition 65 prime crew member Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos bids him farewell prior to his departure to Baikonur for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Friday, March 26, 2021 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
nhq202009230006 (Sept. 23, 2020) --- Expedition 64 crew member NASA astronaut Kate Rubins signs in for Soyuz qualification exams as crew mates Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos look on, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. 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 pose for a photograph 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)
nhq202009220009 (Sept. 22, 2020) --- Expedition 64 crew member Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos arrives for Soyuz qualification exams Tuesday, Sept. 22, 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)
Expedition 47 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka dons his Russian Sokol suit on his final day of Soyuz qualification exams with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, and NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Se fosse un vestito, e dovessi scegliere di indossarla, io lo farei d'autunno, appunto.
Palermo non è estiva, e se è vero che il suo nome antico era Panormus - che significa "tutto porto" - questa circostanza non deve trarre in inganno e indurre a pensare che questa città sia protesa verso il mare.
A Palermo non c'è un lungomare (certo, c'è chi si ostina a chiamare così quella minuscola terrazza sul Foro Italico, ma la proporzione tra i km di costa palermitana e le poche centinaia di metri di quello spazio accanto al porto fugheranno qualsiasi dubbio al riguardo) e nonostante alcuni timidi tentativi per crearne uno, nessun progetto ha mai visto la luce né è stato accolto con entusiasmo dai suoi abitanti, che evidentemente preferiscono "l'entroterra".
La vita si svolge nella parte interna della città e d'estate, quando il caldo umido soffoca i suoi abitanti, impedendogli di respirare, Panormus si svuota con una corsa verso le molte località balneari limitrofe.
Palermo non è nemmeno invernale, decisamente no. D'inverno i palermitani soffrono maledettamente il freddo gelido che attraversa le sue strade (per i milanesi brezza marina) e una pioggia passeggera può persino renderla invivibile. Quattro gocce d'acqua trasformano le strade in fiumi, piccole pozzanghere diventano laghi attraversabili solo con mezzi d'acqua a motore, il panico automobilistico paralizza i più esperti guidatori. E' possibile scorgere vigili in preda a crisi isteriche, pedoni che collettivamente tentano il suicidio ai semafori, vecchietti che "io questo freddo in 70 anni un l'haiu vistu mai!"
A Palermo, se la temperatura sfiora i 10°, non si parla d'altro.
L'elemento che definitivamente vale a escludere la possibilità che questa sia una città invernale, è l'assoluta impossibilità di vivere le strade anche di notte!
I locali grandi come il bagno di casa mia sono la caratteristica principale della Palermo by night, e immaginerete come risulti impossibile starci dentro. Infatti, a parte un paio di mesi di freddo gelido (!), in cui la gente viene stipata in pochi metri quadrati di sudore in vapore, la notte a Palermo, com'è ovvio, si vive per le strade. E se anche c'è il coraggio di lanciare mode che svuotano locali a scapito di altri, quello che vedrete stracolmo di gente con alcolico alla mano è solo lo spazio antistante al buco trendy della stagione.
Palermo, poi, non è nemmeno primaverile. Certo, essendo la primavera, come l'autunno, una stagione "di mezzo", è sicuramente più vicina all'essenza della città, ma vi è un dato che secondo me esclude possa esserlo: questa città è troppo malinconica e decadente per essere allegra come una primavera.
La luce dorata la rende romantica, quasi ammiccante (non illudetevi, è solo un mezzo sorriso amaro e beffardo), seducente, ma non c'è spenzieratezza che possa renderla somigliante alla stagione degli innamoramenti, no.
Palermo è autunnale. Sì.
I suoi colori si adattano perfettamente a quell'aria un pò triste e malinconica, nostalgica della "bella stagione" andata.
E' "sua" la temperatura ancora mite, le appartiene quel lento rimpicciolirsi dei giorni.
E appartiene a chi la vive quell'aria un pò rassegnata, sognante, assente.
La contraddizione dell'autunno è in fondo la perfetta trasposizione "temporale" del carattere bipolare e sempre un po' distante della città e di chi la abita.
E poi, a Palermo, si sta come in questa stagione sugli alberi le foglie.
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The Soyuz simulator is seen with Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos as they participate in their second day of qualification exams Thursday, March 5, 2015 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) Soyuz training facility in Star City, Russia. The trio is preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time. As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 43 backup crew members; Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), left, and NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams listen to questions from the media ahead of their Soyuz qualification exams with fellow backup crew member, Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Volkov of Roscosmos, Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
nhq2017070600121 (July 6, 2017) --- Expedition 52 flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA participates in qualification exams with Expedition 52 flight engineers Randy Bresnik of NASA, and Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Beth Weissinger)
nhq201608310010 (08/31/2016) --- Expedition 49 Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov of Roscosmos dons his Russian Sokol suit ahead of the Soyuz qualification exams with fellow Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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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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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Expedition 47 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka signs documents on the final day of Soyuz qualification exams with Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin, and NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden looks at items used in space during a tour of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) on Friday, March 25, 2016, in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/AubreyGemignani)
lo Starcity è moooolto meno figo di quel che sembra
umore: spallato/frustrato.
ps. non chiedetemi PERCHé ho passato 8 interminabili ore in un posto così, vi supplico.
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CCCP-42355 Tupolev Tu-16 in full Aeroflot colours seen at Moscow Chkalovsky Airport on 28th June 2002. This aircraft was photographed during a ramp tour of the Yuri Gagarin flight school (organised through George Pick Travel).
The Tupolev Tu-16 (NATO reporting name: Badger) was a twin-engined jet strategic bomber used by the Soviet Union. It flew for more than 50 years but last flew in Russia in 1993.
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Expedition 64 crew member Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos signs in for Soyuz qualification exams as crew mate Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos looks on, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
Officials, family and friends gather to welcome home Expedition 57 cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos after he, Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA and Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) landed their Soyuz MS-09 capsule near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. Auñón-Chancellor, Gerst, and Prokopyev are returning after 197 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 56 and 57 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
nhq201608310008 (08/31/2016) --- Expedition 49 NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough dons his Russian Sokol suit ahead of the Soyuz qualification exams with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
nhq201608310017 (08/31/2016) --- Expedition 49 NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, left, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos pose for a group photograph outside the Soyuz simulator ahead of their Soyuz qualification exams, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
One-year mission crew members Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, second left, Scott Kelly of NASA, second right, and their Expedition 46 crew mate Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos, center, walk with their families during the crew return ceremony Friday, March 25, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Kelly and Kornienko completed a record 340 days aboard the International Space Station on March 2, 2016 (Kazakhstan time), to collect valuable data about how the human body adjusts to weightlessness and long-duration spaceflight which will inform future human missions on the journey to Mars. Volkov spent six months on the station. Photo Credit: (NASA/AubreyGemignani)
nhq201608310002 (08/31/2016) --- Expedition 49 NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough dons his Russian Sokol suit ahead of the Soyuz qualification exams with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 47 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka is seen inside the Soyuz simulator for his final qualification exam with NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Expedition 47 NASA astronaut Jeff Williams answers questions from the press outside the Soyuz simulator with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, and Alexei Ovchinin of Roscosmos ahead of their final Soyuz qualification exams, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Texas, Californie, Allemagne... et aussi Russie ! La Cité des Étoiles est un lieu historique où on s'est récemment entrainés avec Matthias, sur le bras robotique européen. Surnommé ERA, il devrait être lancé cette année et faire partie du nouveau module scientifique qui doit prolonger le segment russe de la Station spatiale internationale. Il aura un panneau de contrôle à l'intérieur et un autre à l'extérieur de la Station ️
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A historical workplace the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, also called Star City. We spent some time (re)learning about the Russian segment of the Space Station but also practicing with the European Robotic Arm robotics system at Star City. The European Robotic Arm is slated to launch this year as part of a new science module that will expand the Russian segment of the Space Station. It has a control board that can be used both inside and outside the Station, so a spacewalker can control the arm directly while outside!
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Credits: ESA–Y. Kargapolov
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