On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space. This was the first time cosmonauts completed zero-G training on an airplane.
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March 9, 1934: The birth of Yuri Gagarin
Born on March 9, 1934, to Russian farmers, Yuri Gagarin worked as a foundry apprentice and attended a technical high school ...
The cosmonaut training centre : birth and growth -- Simulators -- Other national and international facilities -- Survival training -- The cosmonaut group of the RGNII TsPK -- The cosmonaut group of ...
WATCH: The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, shouted, “Hey, sky, take off your hat; I’m on my way!” Tereshkova’s ...
A different kind of space race is sending a University of North Florida student to train like a cosmonaut in Russia. UNF junior Lee Giat won a nationwide contest that will send him to Europe for an ...
ZVEZDNY GORODOK /Moscow Region/, November 6. /TASS/. Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Deputy Head and Hero of Russia Oleg Kononenko presented cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov with a TASS special ...
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