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Mr. Elon Musk, it looks like America and one of her astronauts aboard the International Space Station might need you. You know, the place where your space capsules have gone to a number of times, and have allowed the United States to not depend on the Russians for a lift up and back home. Thankfully, the private sector, led by Elon Musk and his company Space X in conjunction with NASA, recently allowed the United States to forgo depending in Russia for rides, and now can send manned rockets from the United States’ soil again. In all honesty, I have...

en. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said in a statement on Wednesday that he would support changes to break the filibuster to pass two voting rights reform bills. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Tuesday that the Democrat-led Senate will move to strike the 60-vote threshold to advance legislation and instead replace it with a “talking filibuster.” The taking filibuster would require senators to continuously speak on the Senate floor to avoid ending debate on proposed bills. At the end of debate, the bill would require only 51 votes to pass through Congress’s upper chamber. Kelly, who is up for reelection...

Mark Kelly was sworn in as Arizona's second Democratic senator Wednesday afternoon, shaving the Republican’s majority by one vote for the final weeks of the lame-duck session and marking the first time the state has had two Democrats in the Senate in 67 years. On the Senate floor, Kelly was escorted to the dais by fellow Arizona Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema where Vice President Mike Pence, as Senate president, delivered the oath of office. All three kept their masks on for the entirety of the swearing-in as Kelly stood six feet back from the vice president with his hand on...

Democrat Senate Candidate Mark Kelly’s Yearbook Shows Him Dressed As Hitler National File has obtained yearbook photos that show Mark Kelly dressed as Hitler for Halloween National File has obtained a series of photos from the 1986 yearbook of Mark Kelly, the Democrat Senate candidate in Arizona, which show him dressed as Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler for a Halloween party while attending the Merchant Marine Academy.

Over half of likely Arizona voters surveyed said they’d choose political newcomer Mark Kelly over current seatholder Sen. Martha McSally in their race, according to a poll released Wednesday. Kelly, a Democrat, led McSally 51%-42% in the OH Predictive Insights survey of 600, with 7% undecided. The cellphone-landline poll of 600 contacted April 7-8 had a margin of error of 4%.

egendary cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space — an experience that almost killed him — and later the commander of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that docked with a NASA Apollo capsule, symbolizing a historic thaw in the Cold War, has died after a long illness, the Russian space agency confirmed Friday. He was 85. An accomplished amateur artist and a widely respected statesman in the international space community, Leonov remained a lifelong friend of his Apollo-Soyuz Test Project crewmates and a source of inspiration to a younger generation of cosmonauts who carried his photo to the...

Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first human to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died Friday in Moscow aged 85, his assistant said. "He died today in Moscow at the Burdenko hospital after a long illness," Natalia Filimonova told AFP. The Russian space agency Roscosmos said it was saddened to announce the death of "cosmonaut No 11" who was twice decorated with the country's top honor, the Hero of the Soviet Union.

June 3, 2018 — A Russian spacecraft carrying three crew members home from a five month stay on the International Space Station returned to Earth on Sunday (June 3). Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, Norishige "Neemo" Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and astronaut Scott "Maker" Tingle of NASA touched down aboard Russia's Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan. Descending under a parachute, the gumdrop-shape capsule was further slowed by braking thrusters and landed southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan at 8:39 a.m. EDT (1239 GMT or 6:39 p.m. local Kazakh time). "That was a good ride!"...

The training and preparation required to become a cosmonaut is believed to be one of the most arduous and difficult in any field. But ask Mohammed Faris and he will tell you it's a stroll in the park when compared to the emotional hardships that come with becoming a refugee. He should know. Faris, 65, is widely revered among his fellow citizens for becoming the first and only Syrian to travel to space in 1987. He was greeted by thousands lining the streets upon his return. He had streets, schools and even an airport named after him in his honour....

Red Space: The Secret Russian Space Program. This four part documentary uses photos, videos, and interviews to piece together the turbulent Russian Space program. In a race with the U.S. to control space and reach the moon the program achieved many successes and many setbacks. The two superpowers of that era pushed each other to win the space race.

Former Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalenok appeared at a press conference devoted to unusual and anomalous phenomena in space. He said that he had witnessed something inexplicable during his work on board the Salyut orbital station. The cosmonaut said that he once saw a strange object on Earth’s orbit. He asked his partner, Viktor Savinykh, to fetch a camera. While Savinykh was trying to find the camera, the object exploded in front of Kovalenok’s eyes. The object split into two parts and had something like a bridge connecting those parts. The dumbbell-like object disappeared before the other cosmonaut was ready to...

The Kremlin has vetoed a move to launch a fresh investigation into the death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, despite aviation specialists' belief that they have unravelled one of the 20th century's greatest enigmas. The rebuff comes as Russians celebrate Cosmonauts' Day today, the anniversary of Gagarin's historic flight around the Earth on 12 April 1961. That foray, which lasted just 68 minutes, was a milestone in the space race between the Soviet Union and the US. But Gagarin was destined to a short, controversial life. On 27 March 1968, Gagarin died in a mysterious plane crash...

WASHINGTON, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney will perform live for the crew of the International Space Station November 13, NASA's press service said Thursday. U.S. astronaut William McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev will wake up this Sunday to McCartney serenading them live from Anaheim, California. He is scheduled to sing two songs, God Day Sunshine from The Beatles' Revolver album and English Tea from his last album, Chaos And Creation In The Backyard. It is the first time that a live concert will be transmitted to a spacecraft. Good Day Sunshine was used to...

Waiting in the Wings: Expedition 12, Space Tourist Olsen Prepare By Tariq Malik Staff Writer posted: 11 August 2005 06:44 am ET HOUSTON—As the crew of NASA’s space shuttle Discovery celebrates their safe return to Earth, two astronauts are gearing up for their own launch toward the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev are set to ride a Soyuz spacecraft to the station in October on the twelfth expedition to the ISS. McArthur will command ISS Expedition 12, with Tokarev serving as flight engineer. Physicist Gregory Olsen, a paying spaceflight participant whose trip...

Beijing fights to keep space bid secret By Hamish McDonald, Herald Correspondent in Beijing October 2, 2003 About 650 years ago, an inventive Chinese mandarin named Wan Hu tied 47 large rockets filled with gunpowder to his chair and, firmly clutching a kite in each hand, ordered his servants to light the touchpapers. He vanished in a cloud of sparks and blue smoke, according to legend, with many of his Ming dynasty contemporaries believing he was somewhere in the heavens. Some time this month, maybe even by the time this newspaper appears, China will attempt to pursue Wan Hu's ambitions...

  '100 day countdown' to China's first astronaut   16:53 22 July 03   NewScientist.com news service   China is on course to become only the third nation ever to place a human in space, following press reports that the first crewed flight will take place in 100 days. A government source told the state-controlled news service Wen Wei Po that the launch would take place within this timeframe. No official date for launch has been set. There has already been some speculation that China's National Space Administration may target 1 October, the date on which the People's Republic of China was founded....

MOSCOW -- International space station cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko has promised the Russian space agency to cancel his plan to get married while in orbit, an agency spokesman said today. The promise came after officials explained that the plan presented an assortment of legal complexities, said Sergei Gorbunov, a spokesman for Rosaviakosmos, the national aerospace agency. Malenchenko's intention to marry Ekaterina Dmitriev, an American citizen, on Aug. 10 while he is still aboard the spaceship caught the agency by surprise when he told an official about it recently, Gorbunov said: "The official nearly fell from his chair when he heard that."...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - International Space Station commander Yuri Malenchenko won't be standing next to his bride when he marries next month, he'll be orbiting 240 miles above the earth. In what could be the first space wedding, Malenchenko and Ekaterina Dmitritv will wed either by phone or proxy, his bride-to-be told reporters on Thursday after getting a marriage license in a Houston suburb. "To me it's very exciting. I'm kind of used to doing things out of the norm, outside the box. He adapted to it and he loved the idea," Dmitritv, 26, said. Dmitritv said Malenchenko proposed to...

RICHMOND (TX) -- It is going to be a marriage made in heaven. Almost. For the first time ever, a person in space will be married when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, now orbiting Earth in the international space station, weds Ekaterina Dmitriev, who will be firmly on the ground in Texas. The couple was issued a marriage license Thursday by Fort Bend County Clerk Dianne Wilson, who also handed the bride-to-be a bouquet of yellow roses. They plan to marry Aug. 10. "This shows you that long-distance relationships do work," the brown-eyed Dmitriev said with a grin shortly after receiving...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 December 28 Mir Dreams Credit: STS-76 Crew, NASA Explanation: This dream-like image of Mir was recorded by astronauts as the Space Shuttle Atlantis approached the Russian space station prior to docking during the STS-76 mission. Sporting spindly appendages and solar panels, Mir resembles a whimsical flying insect hovering about 350 kilometers above New Zealand's South Island and the city of Nelson near Cook Strait. In late March...