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A little girl and her parents stand in front of the street gallery of paintings and drawings and look at the funny, childish, cute portrait of Yuri Gagarin - the first human to flight into outer space. This is the true candid photo. All people presented (including Yuri Gagarin himself) are unrecognizable. :-) Street photo in black and white. A bit of romantic and heart melting, yeah?
Recently found photograph.
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space.
His spacecraft was called Vostok.
Until today Soviets have kept this part of his journey in secret.
It's impossible to know which nationality the Space Ape was, so
of course it was best to be silent about this.
NOW IT*S TIME FOR WORLD TO KNOW!
Yuri Gagarin. Estación Kosmonavtlar (Cosmonautas), metro de Tashkent, línea Oʻzbekiston. Uzbekistán (1984). Pinturas de Arnold Pavlovich Gan. Arquitectura de C. Sutyagin y C. Sokolov. Diseño de A. Zokirov y A. Braslovsky. Primer ser humano de la historia en el espacio, con la misión Vostok-1 (1961).
Human Spaceflight Image of the Week: Road to the stars
On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth in his Vostok spacecraft that launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, now in Kazakhstan. ESA astronaut Tim Peake was launched into space from the very same launchpad as Yuri Gagarin and now, 55 years later, he tweeted this picture of himself on the ISS reading Yuri’s autobiography Road to the Stars.
The book is a special copy, signed by Gagarin himself, and it flew to space in 1991 with British astronaut Helen Sharman to the Russian space station Mir. The book is now signed by the current crew on the International Space Station, as well as the crew on Mir during Helen’s mission.
12 April has become a worldwide day of celebration of human spaceflight. Cosmonauts on the International Space Station are given a day off on this day. Today Yuri Malenchenko, Oleg Skripochka, Alexei Ovchinin are given a break from their busy schedules in space – aside from their obligatory daily exercise.
Credit: ESA/NASA
More here.
À une prochaine fois Oleg, Yulia et Klim, aucun doute : on se recroisera sur Terre ! Piotr et Mark restent à bord avec nous, avec sans doute une impression étrange aujourd’hui de voir leur ancien vaisseau partir sans eux ! Ils redescendront sur Terre dans 6 mois à bord du Soyouz MS-19 avec lequel Anton est arrivé. Le Soyuz, comme toute capsule spatiale, est certifié pouvoir rester un certain temps en orbite, car certains équipements fonctionnent en permanence, et s’usent petit à petit… comme sur une voiture, un avion ou n’importe quel véhicule, rien ne peut fonctionner indéfiniment, surtout en environnement extrême. Après un peu plus de 200 jours, il faut redescendre sur terre, d’où les rotations régulières (et parfois le changement de véhicule à la montée et la descente comme ici : on laisse le véhicule le plus récent et on redescend avec le plus ancient). Et oui, c’est pareil avec le Dragon. Seule l’ISS ne redescend jamais, et c’est une prouesse technique de l’entretenir in-situ
The Soyuz MS-18 leaving with Oleg, Yulia and Klim. Mark and Pyotr are still here with us even if they travelled with the Soyuz MS-18 "Yuri Gagarin" that left this morning to get here. It must be a weird feeling to see your spacecraft leave! They return home in the Soyuz MS-19 that arrived with Anton, a fresh spacecraft. The Soyuz, like all spacecraft, is certified to stay a number of days in orbit. Equipment suffers from natural wear and tear and like a car, or aircraft nothing can work indefinitely, especially in extreme environment like space. After around 200 days the Soyuz must return to Earth, this is why we have regular rotations (and why sometimes people arrive on a spacecraft and return on another one like today: we leave the more recent spacecraft and take the older one back home). It is the same for the Dragon. Only the International Space Station never returns, and it is through technical prowess from the engineers on Earth that we are able to maintain it while in orbit!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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À une prochaine fois Oleg, Ioulia et Klim, aucun doute : on se recroisera sur Terre ! Piotr et Mark restent à bord avec nous, avec sans doute une impression étrange aujourd’hui de voir leur ancien vaisseau partir sans eux ! Ils redescendront sur Terre dans six mois à bord du Soyouz MS-19 avec lequel Anton est arrivé. Le Soyuz, comme toute capsule spatiale, est certifié pouvoir rester un certain temps en orbite, car certains équipements fonctionnent en permanence, et s’usent petit à petit… comme sur une voiture, un avion ou n’importe quel véhicule, rien ne peut fonctionner indéfiniment, surtout en environnement extrême. Après un peu plus de 200 jours, il faut redescendre sur terre, d’où les rotations régulières (et parfois le changement de véhicule à la montée et la descente comme ici : on laisse le véhicule le plus récent et on redescend avec le plus ancient). Et oui, c’est pareil avec le Dragon. Seule l’ISS ne redescend jamais, et c’est une prouesse technique de l’entretenir in-situ!
The Soyuz MS-18 leaving with Oleg, Yulia and Klim. Mark and Pyotr are still here with us even if they travelled with the Soyuz MS-18 "Yuri Gagarin" that left this morning to get here. It must be a weird feeling to see your spacecraft leave! They return home in the Soyuz MS-19 that arrived with Anton, a fresh spacecraft. The Soyuz, like all spacecraft, is certified to stay a number of days in orbit. Equipment suffers from natural wear and tear and like a car, or aircraft nothing can work indefinitely, especially in extreme environment like space. After around 200 days the Soyuz must return to Earth, this is why we have regular rotations (and why sometimes people arrive on a spacecraft and return on another one like today: we leave the more recent spacecraft and take the older one back home). It is the same for the Dragon. Only the International Space Station never returns, and it is through technical prowess from the engineers on Earth that we are able to maintain it while in orbit!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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These 2 pin badges are on the lapel of my lightweight jacket.
They are both old and have a bit of history.
The blue and gold badge is the original logo of a charity called DebRA (formerly Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bulls Research Association) and dates from the late 70's
The picture is of a man who was famous around the world in the early 60's. I got he badge in a market in Bulgaria in the early 90's. He is, of course, Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
Pin Badges for Macro Mondays
Agia Napa | Ayia Napa | Агиа Напа | Αγια Ναπα, 09-10-2018.
Paparazzi Art Studio (English)
Ayia Napa Street Art Festival on Facebook (English)
My Ayia Napa, October 2018 set in my European Union Collection
This week one year ago, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen (left) spent 10 days in space on his ‘iriss’ mission to the International Space Station. He was launched on 2 September 2015 in a Soyuz spacecraft with cosmonaut commander Sergei Volkov (right) and returned in a different Soyuz with commander Gennadi Padalka. Sergei stayed on to complete his third six-month stay on the Space Station.
Andreas and Sergei unveiled a bust of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, exactly a year after their own launch. The event commemorated Gagarin’s visit to Denmark 54 years ago during his tour of Europe after his landmark orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.
The bust is at the Danish Technical University near Copenhagen, Denmark. The university participated in a number of experiments on the International Space Station, including Andreas imaging a newly discovered weather phenomenon.
Credit: DTU–M. Schlosser
From the unpublished series: ‘Gagarin Monuments’ by René Nuijens.
Photographed on a Leica M6 with 35mm
The main peripheral boulevard of the Thuringian capial, Erfurt, is the Yuri Gagarin Ring, and a large mural of the geat man himself adorns the wall of an adjacent apartment block. Here he looks down on a passsing Mercedes-Benz Citaro of SWE EVAG, the local authority owned transport undertaking.
Another view of the fabulous Norwegian Air Force Historical Squadron's pairing of a Mig-15 and a T-33 as they displayed along the seafront at Eastbourne during AIRbourne 2019
The MiG-15UTI is N104CJ aka 'Red 18', a licenced Polish-built PZL-Mielec SBLim-2, painted to represent Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's personal MiG-15
The 'Lockheed' T-33A is a CT-133 Silver Star 3 - the Canadian licence-built version of the American Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star and is ex RCAF 133599
She was previously NX865SA and is now LN-DPS
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À une prochaine fois Oleg, Yulia et Klim, aucun doute : on se recroisera sur Terre ! Piotr et Mark restent à bord avec nous, avec sans doute une impression étrange aujourd’hui de voir leur ancien vaisseau partir sans eux ! Ils redescendront sur Terre dans 6 mois à bord du Soyouz MS-19 avec lequel Anton est arrivé. Le Soyuz, comme toute capsule spatiale, est certifié pouvoir rester un certain temps en orbite, car certains équipements fonctionnent en permanence, et s’usent petit à petit… comme sur une voiture, un avion ou n’importe quel véhicule, rien ne peut fonctionner indéfiniment, surtout en environnement extrême. Après un peu plus de 200 jours, il faut redescendre sur terre, d’où les rotations régulières (et parfois le changement de véhicule à la montée et la descente comme ici : on laisse le véhicule le plus récent et on redescend avec le plus ancient). Et oui, c’est pareil avec le Dragon. Seule l’ISS ne redescend jamais, et c’est une prouesse technique de l’entretenir in-situ
The Soyuz MS-18 leaving with Oleg, Yulia and Klim. Mark and Pyotr are still here with us even if they travelled with the Soyuz MS-18 "Yuri Gagarin" that left this morning to get here. It must be a weird feeling to see your spacecraft leave! They return home in the Soyuz MS-19 that arrived with Anton, a fresh spacecraft. The Soyuz, like all spacecraft, is certified to stay a number of days in orbit. Equipment suffers from natural wear and tear and like a car, or aircraft nothing can work indefinitely, especially in extreme environment like space. After around 200 days the Soyuz must return to Earth, this is why we have regular rotations (and why sometimes people arrive on a spacecraft and return on another one like today: we leave the more recent spacecraft and take the older one back home). It is the same for the Dragon. Only the International Space Station never returns, and it is through technical prowess from the engineers on Earth that we are able to maintain it while in orbit!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Vostok 1 the first human orbital spaceflight in history with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin 1961 in the Technikmuseum Speyer.
From the unpublished series: ‘Gagarin Monuments’ by René Nuijens.
Photographed on a Leica M6 with 35mm
Human spaceflight image of the week:
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli (left) along with Expedition 52 crewmates Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos (centre) and Randy Bresnik of NASA (right) took to Red Square in Moscow yesterday to perform ceremonies ahead of their 28 July launch to the International Space Station.
The crew paid tribute to Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, and four other cosmonauts by placing a carnation at each memorial along the Kremlin Wall in Red Square. Other rituals include special signings, haircuts and some gardening.
Many of these traditions originate with Gagarin himself. A week before his launch, he planted a tree outside Baikonur Cosmodrome, and then got a haircut two days before his flight.
Since then, all crews launched aboard a Russian launch vehicle do as Yuri did. Some traditions were added later, such as signing the Visitor’s Book at Yuri’s office in Star City, which has been preserved just as he left it.
Like all rituals and traditions, they serve as a source of calm and comfort ahead of a taxing journey and cement the bond between fellow space explorers.
Expedition 52 marks the last mission for Paolo Nespoli to the International Space Station. He was last on the Station in 2010 for Europe’s third six-month mission.
His mission is called Vita, which stands for Vitality, Innovation, Technology and Ability. The name was chosen by Italy’s ASI space agency, which is providing the mission through a barter agreement with NASA.
In Italian, “vita” means “life”, reflecting the experiments that Paolo will run and the philosophical notion of living in outer space – one of the most inhospitable places for humans.
Credit: NASA (Bill Ingalls)
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968) was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.
Three great Russians:
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovski
Mural mosaic in the Centre of Space Operations (Центр управления полётами), Korolyov, Moscow, Russia
I hadn't re-started shooting film when I was at TsUP for work, otherwise I would have used a proper camera.
From the unpublished series: ‘Gagarin Monuments’ by René Nuijens.
Photographed on a Leica M6 with 35mm
À une prochaine fois Oleg, Yulia et Klim, aucun doute : on se recroisera sur Terre ! Piotr et Mark restent à bord avec nous, avec sans doute une impression étrange aujourd’hui de voir leur ancien vaisseau partir sans eux ! Ils redescendront sur Terre dans 6 mois à bord du Soyouz MS-19 avec lequel Anton est arrivé. Le Soyuz, comme toute capsule spatiale, est certifié pouvoir rester un certain temps en orbite, car certains équipements fonctionnent en permanence, et s’usent petit à petit… comme sur une voiture, un avion ou n’importe quel véhicule, rien ne peut fonctionner indéfiniment, surtout en environnement extrême. Après un peu plus de 200 jours, il faut redescendre sur terre, d’où les rotations régulières (et parfois le changement de véhicule à la montée et la descente comme ici : on laisse le véhicule le plus récent et on redescend avec le plus ancient). Et oui, c’est pareil avec le Dragon. Seule l’ISS ne redescend jamais, et c’est une prouesse technique de l’entretenir in-situ
The Soyuz MS-18 leaving with Oleg, Yulia and Klim. Mark and Pyotr are still here with us even if they travelled with the Soyuz MS-18 "Yuri Gagarin" that left this morning to get here. It must be a weird feeling to see your spacecraft leave! They return home in the Soyuz MS-19 that arrived with Anton, a fresh spacecraft. The Soyuz, like all spacecraft, is certified to stay a number of days in orbit. Equipment suffers from natural wear and tear and like a car, or aircraft nothing can work indefinitely, especially in extreme environment like space. After around 200 days the Soyuz must return to Earth, this is why we have regular rotations (and why sometimes people arrive on a spacecraft and return on another one like today: we leave the more recent spacecraft and take the older one back home). It is the same for the Dragon. Only the International Space Station never returns, and it is through technical prowess from the engineers on Earth that we are able to maintain it while in orbit!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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From the unpublished series: ‘Gagarin Monuments’ by René Nuijens.
Photographed on a Leica M6 with 35mm
From the unpublished series: ‘Gagarin Monuments’ by René Nuijens.
Photographed on a Leica M6 with 35mm
I recently became a little obsessed with the early space race between the U.S.S.R and U.S. These posters are the result.
This one showing off the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.
Statue of Yuri Gagarin, Greenwich. I've chosen not to correct the converging verticals in this one as I think that it makes it quite dramatic.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 and Canadair CT-133 Silver Star fly together at Duxford Air Show 2019.
The Mig-15UTI flying is a trainer version built in Poland in 1952. It is painted as 'Red 18' to represent the aircraft flown by Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Before training to become the first man in space in 1961, Gagarin was a MiG-15 fighter pilot, stationed close to the Norwegian border.
The Lockheed Shooting Star was America's first operational jet fighter. With a lengthened nose and provision for two seats, it was redesignated as the T-33 and saw action in Korea, Laos and Cuba as a reconnaissance aircraft and also widely used as a trainer by many NATO countries during the Cold War.
Both these aircraft are owned by the Norwegian Air Force Historical Squadron.
"AGITATOR - Magazine of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" with an image of Yuri Gagarin (the first human to journey into outer space) on the cover page surrounded by the typical graphic style of the so-called space race time, a period that influenced a lot Soviet art and architecture.
Dr. George M. Low, acting administrator of NASA, presented to the USSR on January 21, 1971, a plaque in memory of Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who made the first flight into space on April 12, 1961. Accepting the plaque at the Moscow ceremony was Soviet Gen. Kuznetsov, commander of the USSR's Star City space base, where cosmonauts have been training since 1960. Gagarin, who made history with his 1 hour and 48 minute flight, lost his life in a training accident on March 27, 1968.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S70-56914
Date: January 21, 1971
One of yesterday's celebrations on board the ISS: dinner and movie for Yuri's Night!
Una delle celebrazioni di ieri a bordo della ISS: cena e film per Yuri's Night!
Credit: ESA/NASA
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"You know, what a guy he was"
You know, what a guy he was,
The one who path star opened.
A flame was and thunder, metering cosmodrome,
And he said quietly.
He said " let's go, he waved his hand,
As if along Piterskaya, St. Petersburg
Swept over the Earth.
As if along Piterskaya, St. Petersburg
Swept over the Earth.
You know, what a guy he was,
How he loved the fields of his motherland.
In this distant steppe,
the first orbital flight was
a declaration of love to Earth.
He said " let's go, he waved his hand,
As if along Piterskaya, St. Petersburg
Swept over the Earth.
As if along Piterskaya, St. Petersburg
Swept over the Earth.
You know, what a guy he was,
In the hands of the world wore it.
Son of the Earth and the stars tender was and simple,
People light as Danko was carrying.
He said " let's go, he waved his hand,
As if along Piterskaya, St. Petersburg
Swept over the Earth.
As if along Piterskaya, St. Petersburg
Swept over the Earth.
You know, what a guy he was,
As the ice he stick out.
As he sang songs, cheerful was and bold,
How ardently wanted to live.
He said " let's go, he waved his hand,
As if along Piterskaya, St. Petersburg
Swept over the Earth.
You know, what a guy he was,
There is no "was the", because death he conquered.
You hear distant thunder, see, that he
Again goes to Baikonur.
Says " let's go, and live a star
As if along Piterskaya, St. Petersburg
Rushing over the Earth.
As if along Piterskaya, St. Petersburg
Rushing over the Earth.
Russian Poet Nikolay Dobronravov
«Знаете, каким он парнем был»
Знаете, каким он парнем был,
Тот, кто тропку звёздную открыл.
Пламень был и гром, замер космодром,
И сказал негромко он.
Он сказал - поехали, он взмахнул рукой,
Словно вдоль по Питерской, Питерской
Пронёсся над Землёй.
Словно вдоль по Питерской, Питерской
Пронёсся над Землёй.
Знаете, каким он парнем был,
Как поля родные он любил.
В той степной дали первый старт с Земли,
Был признаньем ей в любви.
Он сказал - поехали, он взмахнул рукой,
Словно вдоль по Питерской, Питерской
Пронёсся над Землёй.
Словно вдоль по Питерской, Питерской
Пронёсся над Землёй.
Знаете, каким он парнем был,
На руках весь мир его носил.
Сын Земли и звёзд нежен был и прост,
Людям свет как Данко нёс.
Он сказал - поехали, он взмахнул рукой,
Словно вдоль по Питерской, Питерской
Пронёсся над Землёй.
Словно вдоль по Питерской, Питерской
Пронёсся над Землёй.
Знаете, каким он парнем был,
Как на лёд он с клюшкой выходил.
Как он песни пел, весел был и смел,
Как азартно жить хотел.
Он сказал - поехали, он взмахнул рукой,
Словно вдоль по Питерской, Питерской
Пронёсся над Землёй.
Знаете, каким он парнем был,
Нет не "был", ведь смерть он победил.
Слышишь дальний гром, видишь, это он
Вновь идёт на космодром.
Говорит - поехали, и живой звездой
Словно вдоль по Питерской, Питерской
Несётся над Землёй.
Словно вдоль по Питерской, Питерской
Несётся над Землёй.
Русский Поэт Николай Добронравов
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"The Constellation of Gagarin"
Let the stars again we will appoint a date,
We hear bits of space blizzards...
You're with us, you are with us are going on a mission,
First, faithful, tried friend!
You are the world подружил with amazing сказкою,
Shines with a smile, as Zorka in the mist...
That smile and good, and gentle
It became people warmer on Earth.
In the forests for Vladimir pine centenary,
And overcast the sun in the morning arises...
Will not, will not be the last flight -
Remember people your first flight.
You remember the Paris suburbs,
Prospects of Moscow and the Ryazan rye...
And the children in the world play in the Gagarin -
So you're on the planet live!
All closer, all we are closer to the sky boundless,
And deeds in life will not be the end.
Rising over the world Constellation of Gagarin -
To tell the truth, the light will start up of the heart.
Russian Poet Nikolay Dobronravov
"Созвездье Гагарина"
Пусть звёзды опять нам назначат свидание,
Мы слышим разряды космических вьюг…
Ты с нами, ты с нами идёшь на задание,
Первый, верный, испытанный друг!
Ты мир подружил с удивительной сказкою,
Сияет улыбка, как зорька во мгле…
От этой улыбки и доброй, и ласковой
Стало людям теплей на Земле.
В лесах за Владимиром сосны столетние,
И хмурое солнце под утро встаёт…
Не будет, не будет полёта последнего —
Помнят люди твой первый полёт.
Тебя вспоминают Парижа окраины,
Проспекты Москвы и рязанская рожь…
А дети на свете играют в Гагарина —
Значит, ты на планете живёшь!
Всё ближе, всё ближе нам небо бескрайнее,
И подвигам в жизни не будет конца.
Восходит над миром Созвездье Гагарина —
К правде, к свету стартуют сердца.
Русский Поэт Николай Добронравов
À une prochaine fois Oleg, Yulia et Klim, aucun doute : on se recroisera sur Terre ! Piotr et Mark restent à bord avec nous, avec sans doute une impression étrange aujourd’hui de voir leur ancien vaisseau partir sans eux ! Ils redescendront sur Terre dans 6 mois à bord du Soyouz MS-19 avec lequel Anton est arrivé. Le Soyuz, comme toute capsule spatiale, est certifié pouvoir rester un certain temps en orbite, car certains équipements fonctionnent en permanence, et s’usent petit à petit… comme sur une voiture, un avion ou n’importe quel véhicule, rien ne peut fonctionner indéfiniment, surtout en environnement extrême. Après un peu plus de 200 jours, il faut redescendre sur terre, d’où les rotations régulières (et parfois le changement de véhicule à la montée et la descente comme ici : on laisse le véhicule le plus récent et on redescend avec le plus ancient). Et oui, c’est pareil avec le Dragon. Seule l’ISS ne redescend jamais, et c’est une prouesse technique de l’entretenir in-situ
The Soyuz MS-18 leaving with Oleg, Yulia and Klim. Mark and Pyotr are still here with us even if they travelled with the Soyuz MS-18 "Yuri Gagarin" that left this morning to get here. It must be a weird feeling to see your spacecraft leave! They return home in the Soyuz MS-19 that arrived with Anton, a fresh spacecraft. The Soyuz, like all spacecraft, is certified to stay a number of days in orbit. Equipment suffers from natural wear and tear and like a car, or aircraft nothing can work indefinitely, especially in extreme environment like space. After around 200 days the Soyuz must return to Earth, this is why we have regular rotations (and why sometimes people arrive on a spacecraft and return on another one like today: we leave the more recent spacecraft and take the older one back home). It is the same for the Dragon. Only the International Space Station never returns, and it is through technical prowess from the engineers on Earth that we are able to maintain it while in orbit!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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À une prochaine fois Oleg, Yulia et Klim, aucun doute : on se recroisera sur Terre ! Piotr et Mark restent à bord avec nous, avec sans doute une impression étrange aujourd’hui de voir leur ancien vaisseau partir sans eux ! Ils redescendront sur Terre dans 6 mois à bord du Soyouz MS-19 avec lequel Anton est arrivé. Le Soyuz, comme toute capsule spatiale, est certifié pouvoir rester un certain temps en orbite, car certains équipements fonctionnent en permanence, et s’usent petit à petit… comme sur une voiture, un avion ou n’importe quel véhicule, rien ne peut fonctionner indéfiniment, surtout en environnement extrême. Après un peu plus de 200 jours, il faut redescendre sur terre, d’où les rotations régulières (et parfois le changement de véhicule à la montée et la descente comme ici : on laisse le véhicule le plus récent et on redescend avec le plus ancient). Et oui, c’est pareil avec le Dragon. Seule l’ISS ne redescend jamais, et c’est une prouesse technique de l’entretenir in-situ
The Soyuz MS-18 leaving with Oleg, Yulia and Klim. Mark and Pyotr are still here with us even if they travelled with the Soyuz MS-18 "Yuri Gagarin" that left this morning to get here. It must be a weird feeling to see your spacecraft leave! They return home in the Soyuz MS-19 that arrived with Anton, a fresh spacecraft. The Soyuz, like all spacecraft, is certified to stay a number of days in orbit. Equipment suffers from natural wear and tear and like a car, or aircraft nothing can work indefinitely, especially in extreme environment like space. After around 200 days the Soyuz must return to Earth, this is why we have regular rotations (and why sometimes people arrive on a spacecraft and return on another one like today: we leave the more recent spacecraft and take the older one back home). It is the same for the Dragon. Only the International Space Station never returns, and it is through technical prowess from the engineers on Earth that we are able to maintain it while in orbit!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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A portrait of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space, is seen outside one of the Soyuz simulators as Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) 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)
April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight. I’m usually not much for composite images, but I wanted to do something to commemorate the singular achievement of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, may his memory be for blessing. There are so many discussions this simple idea spawns: life, the universe and everything.
Photo of Yuri Gagarin during training for his flight, taken by an anonymous photographer of the Soviet space program, the ancestor of the Russian Federal Space Agency. (public domain) Credit: TASS
Photo of stars and galaxies imaged by NASA, from the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a small portion of Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which includes objects identified as the most distant objects ever observed by humans. (public domain) Credit: NASA
"My God, it's full of stars!" - Dave Bowman