#krikalev

[moistcell]

[narkonianews]

Kosmonaut zarobljen u svemiru tokom raspada Sovjetskog Saveza

Sovjetski kosmonaut Sergej Krikalev bio je zarobljen u svemiru tokom raspada Sovjetskog Saveza 26. decembra 1991. godine. Baikonur Kosmodrom, sa kojeg su Sovjeti lansirali svoje rakete, sada je pripadao novoosnovanom nezavisnom Kazahstanu, i tražili su ogromne takse za korišćenje njihovih objekata. U međuvremenu, ruska ekonomija se urušavala, pa su pokušali prikupiti sredstva prodajom putovanja…

[mindbogglerofficial]

What Happened to the Astronaut Who Was Lost in Space for 311 Lonely Days?

[yesornopolls]

Did you know this isn’t the first time an astronaut has been stranded in space? Sergei Krikalev was sent up by the USSR, which then disbanded while he was still in space, and they just kind of left him there for almost an entire additional year in the 90s.

[everwizard]

It's interesting to think that while mob hasn't technically time traveled, he experienced a 6 whole extra months in his life that most people didn't. It feels so similar to time travel but he was just stuck in mind prison being tortured for half a year!!

Maybe it could count as a form of time travel. His body didn't go anywhere but his mind experienced a time dilation far exceeding that of Sergei Krikalev, the man that traveled .02 seconds into the future. Poor kid was 14 years old for 18 months!

[spacefrontier]

Space Shuttle Discovery performing the R-bar pitch maneuver (RPM), also known as the rendezvous pitch maneuver, during its rendezvous with the International Space Station. The maneuver was performed by STS-114 commander, Eileen Collins. These images were taken by Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, ISS Expedition 11 commander, and astronaut John Phillips, science officer and flight engineer. July 28, 2005.

The RPM was developed by NASA engineers Steve Walker, Mark Schrock, and Jessica LoPresti in response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster as a way for the crew aboard the International Space Station to visually inspect the Space Shuttle for damage to its thermal protection system. The shuttle would approach the International Space Station and, staying approximately 600 feet from the station, perform a slow 360 degree pitch maneuver, exposing its underside to the ISS crew. After the maneuver was complete, the shuttle would close in and dock with the station.

NASA 1, 2, 3

[orthodoxadventure]

Icons, photographs, and spiritual books have found a permanent abode on the International Space Station, becoming beacons of hope and faith amidst the stars.

The first written icon to journey into space was the Valaam icon of the Mother of God, the blessing of the Valaam Archimandrite Methodius (Petrov). However, the Icon’s journey was not without its trials.

On the return trip, a dangerous oxygen leak threatened their lives. Renowned cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, not knowing any prayers at the time, clung to the handwritten icon and prayed for divine intervention. Miraculously, the oxygen leak stopped and they landed safely on Earth.

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[un-ionizetheradlab]

1, 3, 8, 15

1 - fave astronaut(s)

Astronauts: David Scott, Gus Grissom, Thomas Stafford, Christa McAuliffe

Cosmonauts: Sergei Krikalev, Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, Alexei Leonov, Yuri Gagarin

3 - fave mission patch(es)

Apollo 13

Apollo-Soyuz

ISS Expedition 11

8 - fave space book

Two Sides of the Moon by David Scott and Alexei Leonov. I have a copy that is signed by both of them!!

15 - what food would you most want aboard?

Oooh that's a good question. I'd say some fresh fruit, raspberries maybe.

Space Asks!

[pavelbelyayev]

🧑🏻‍🚀Greetings, fellow Spaceblr bloggers!💫

My name is Vesti, and I've recently had a resurgence in my Special Interest in the Soviet Space Program/Soviet art, history and culture related to space exploration. And so to avoid spamming too much on my main blog, I've created this side blog for original posts or anything else related to the program, from Korolev to Krikalev! Content will include photos, art, informational posts, random fun stuff and occasionally personal anecdotes.

If you can, please promo me so I can get my content out there and share my interest in the SSP with the rest of the Hellsite. Thank you! 🌟

@cosmo-naute @edwhiteandblue @kaiyves @gusgrissom @travesuras-e-historia @spaceandstuffidk @volkov-the-overseer

[sciencespies]

Russia to Launch Space Station Rescue Mission to Bring Astronauts Home

https://sciencespies.com/space/russia-to-launch-space-station-rescue-mission-to-bring-astronauts-home/

Russia to Launch Space Station Rescue Mission to Bring Astronauts Home

The capsule that carried three astronauts to orbit was damaged in December and will be replaced by another Soyuz spacecraft.

The Russian space agency said on Wednesday that it would send an empty Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station in February to replace a damaged spacecraft currently docked there.

“This is the next Soyuz that was scheduled to fly in March,” said Joel Montalbano, the space station program manager at NASA, during a news conference on Wednesday. “It’ll just fly a little earlier.”

The need for a new Soyuz arose after the one docked at the space station started spewing a spray of white particles on Dec. 14. The particles turned out to be coolant from the spacecraft, raising questions about whether part of the capsule could overheat during flight, rendering the craft unsafe to transport astronauts back to Earth.

A still image taken from a NASA video feed showed a spray of coolant emitting from the Soyuz spacecraft.NASA TV, via Reuters

The Soyuz is the only model of spacecraft Russia is using to transport astronauts to and from the I.S.S. The damaged vessel had arrived there in September, taking Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitriy Petelin of Russia and Frank Rubio of NASA to the space station. They had been scheduled to return to Earth in March, but the astronauts will now remain in orbit for several more months.

The next Soyuz, which would have carried three astronauts — two from Roscosmos, the state corporation that oversees Russia’s space industry, and one from NASA — will now launch with its seats empty on Feb. 20. After it reaches the space station, the damaged Soyuz will make a passengerless return to Earth, probably sometime in March. It is set to land at the usual return site in Kazakhstan, carrying some experiments and cargo.

After the leak occurred, astronauts used a camera at the end of a robotic arm on the space station to inspect the leak as engineers on the ground studied the damaged area.

Analysis indicated that with astronauts aboard, temperatures could rise to 100 degrees or hotter with high humidity within the confined space of the compromised Soyuz. That would not only pose dangers to the crew but could cause equipment like the Soyuz’s computer to malfunction.

Until the replacement Soyuz arrives, there is a higher level of risk in case of an emergency — like a large leak that might require an evacuation. The Soyuz and a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule serve as emergency lifeboats for the seven astronauts currently on the station. But officials were measured about the risks.

“I will tell you, there is no immediate need for the crew to come home today, that all the systems are operating,” Mr. Montalbano said.

During the news conference on Wednesday, Sergei Krikalev, executive director of the human spaceflight programs for Roscosmos, said the astronauts would try to remain on the station. In case of a leak, for example, they could close hatches to minimize the leak. But in some situations, the risk of returning in a damaged Soyuz would be lower than the risk of not leaving.

“The Soyuz is not good for nominal re-entry,” Mr. Krikalev said, “but in case of emergency, with extra risk, we are going to use this Soyuz.”

Mr. Montalbano said there had been discussions with SpaceX to see whether, for an emergency evacuation, it would be possible for one of the Soyuz crew to travel back to Earth in the Crew Dragon.

Mr. Krikalev said an investigation concluded that the damage was caused by a micrometeoroid about one millimeter in diameter that was traveling about seven kilometers a second, or more than 15,000 miles per hour. The micrometeoroid hit a radiator on the Soyuz, causing the coolant leak.

The location of the leak, at the end of the Soyuz farthest from the docking port, made it essentially impossible to attempt a repair in space. “You need not only to repair a hole but also to fill the radiator with a liquid, with a coolant,” Mr. Krikalev said. “And the procedure is so difficult and so risky that much less risk would be to just replace the vehicle.”

Mr. Krikalev said that based on the direction and speed, it could not have been a piece of orbital debris from a rocket part or some other human-made object. The question was prompted in part by a Russian antisatellite weapon test in November 2021 that created a debris cloud in orbit, which posed a risk to the space station.

“Some other object on this orbit cannot exist because if it has so high a velocity, it wouldn’t stay on this orbit,” Mr. Krikalev said. “It would leave this orbit.”

Mr. Montalbano said NASA agreed with that conclusion. “We are in the process of getting some additional imagery, but so far we are in concurrence with Roscosmos,” he said.

The shuffling of Soyuz crafts in February and March will also likely lead to NASA adjusting the schedule for other missions to the space station, including the next SpaceX Crew Dragon launch. “We’re going to take the next couple of weeks to kind of lay out the plan,” Mr. Montalbano said.

#Space

[spacemonkiesmafia]

We don't need a repeat of Krikalev.

At this point, might as well.

(in all seriousness, I wish Boeing would get their shit together.)

Posted on Facebook: link

[bobmccullochny]

History

March 26

March 26, 1979 - The Camp David Accord ended 30 years of warfare between Israel and Egypt. Prime Minster Menachem Begin of Israel and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed the treaty of mutual recognition and peace, fostered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

March 26, 1992 - Soviet Cosmonaut Serge Krikalev returned to a new country (Russia) after spending 313 days on board the Mir Space Station. During his stay in space, the Soviet Union (USSR) collapsed and became the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Birthday - American playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. His works featured Southern settings and include; The Glass Menagerie, Night of the Iguana, and two Pulitzer Prize winning plays, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.3 (after 1930)

1930 – The Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong. 1931 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258. 1933 – Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Nazi foreign policy. 1943 – The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive. 1944 – World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison. 1945 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000. 1945 – World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan. 1953 – The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros. 1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community. 1959 – Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash along with the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa, an event later known as The Day the Music Died. 1959 – Sixty-five people are killed when American Airlines Flight 320 crashes into the East River on approach to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. 1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation. 1961 – The United States Air Force begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post. 1966 – The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon. 1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. 1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history. 1984 – Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. 1989 – After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months. 1989 – A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. 1994 – Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle. 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 1998 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy. 2005 – One hundred five people are killed when Kam Air Flight 904 crashes in the Pamir Mountains in Afghanistan. 2007 – A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. 2014 – Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia. 2023 – 2023 Ohio train derailment: A freight train containing vinyl chloride and other hazardous materials derails and burns in East Palestine, Ohio, United States, releasing hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air and contaminating the Ohio River.

[spacenutspod]

The four crew members representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station pose for an official portrait at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will host a pair of news conferences Thursday, Jan. 25, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. A mission overview news conference will begin at 1 p.m. EST and cover NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the microgravity laboratory and Expeditions 70/71. A crew news conference will start at 2:30 p.m., followed by individual astronaut interviews at 3:30 p.m. Both news conferences will be available on the NASA+ streaming service via the web or NASA app, and will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms including social media. The Crew-8 mission, targeted to launch in mid-February, will carry NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeannette Epps, as well as Alexander Grebenkin of Roscosmos to the space station. NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, scheduled to launch to the space station on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on March 21, also will participate in the crew briefing and interviews. For the Crew-8 mission, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the crew aboard a Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the company’s eighth crew rotation mission for NASA. Dyson will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This event is the final media opportunity to speak to the Crew-8 astronauts before they travel to Kennedy for launch. Media wishing to participate in person or seeking a remote interview with the crew must request credentials no later than 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, from the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. Media interested in participating by phone must contact the Johnson newsroom by 9:45 a.m. the day of the event. Briefing participants include (all times Eastern): 1 p.m.: Mission Overview News Conference Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Johnson Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station Program, NASA Johnson Sarah Walker, director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX Sergei Krikalev, executive director, Human Space Flight Programs, Roscosmos 2:30 p.m.: Crew News Conference Tracy Dyson, flight engineer Matthew Dominick, spacecraft commander Michael Barratt, pilot Jeanette Epps, mission specialist Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist 3:30 p.m.: Individual Crew Interview Opportunities Crew-8 members and Dyson available for a limited number of interviews More about space station crew Full crew biographies are linked above. Below are highlights of their spaceflight experience. NASA selected Tracy C. Dyson as an astronaut in June 1998, and during her previous two flights, she logged more than 188 days in space. Dyson first launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on STS-118 in 2007, serving as a mission specialist. During the mission, the crew added the starboard-5 truss segment to the station’s “backbone” and a new gyroscope. In 2010, Dyson served as flight engineer for Expedition 23/24 and performed three spacewalks, logging 22 hours and 49 minutes outside the station as she helped remove and replace a failed pump module for one of two external ammonia circulation loops that keep internal and external equipment cool. Matthew Dominick will serve as commander for Crew-8, his first spaceflight after being selected as an astronaut in 2017. During Expedition 70/71 aboard the space station, he will serve as a mission specialist. Follow @dominickmatthew on X. Michael Barratt is the Crew-8 pilot, making his third visit to the space station. In 2009, Barratt served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 19/20 as the station transitioned its standard crew complement from three to six, and performed two spacewalks. He flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 2011 on STS-133, which delivered the Permanent Multipurpose Module and fourth Express Logistics Carrier. Barratt has spent a total of 212 days in space. During Expedition 70/71, he will serve as a mission specialist. Jeanette Epps was selected by NASA as an astronaut in 2009 and is a mission specialist aboard Crew-8, her first spaceflight, working with the commander and pilot to monitor the spacecraft during the dynamic launch and re-entry phases of flight. She will serve as a flight engineer during Expeditions 70/71. Follow @Astro_Jeanette on X. Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin is flying on his first mission. He will serve as a flight engineer during Expeditions 70/71. Learn more about how NASA innovates for the benefit of humanity through NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew -end- Joshua FinchHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov Leah CheshierJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov Share Details Last Updated Jan 17, 2024 LocationNASA Headquarters Related TermsInternational Space Station (ISS)

[singthesongsofsin]

✨✨| So the next time I worry about Svetlana’s backstory not being historically accurate, I just need to remind myself that the Soviet Union’s dissolution straight up left a cosmonaut stuck in space.

His name is Sergei Krikalev, and during this time in which he was in space, the military almost ordered a warrant for his desertion, before realizing that he was otherwise indisposed. What was supposed to be a 144 day mission become more than 300, and the best part? He went back to space after this!

Svetlana died up there and she still wants to go back. What is it about space that just has this death grip on people???