Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary of the International Space Station’s (ISS) physical assembly in orbit. On December 6, 1998, the crew aboard the space shuttle Endeavor attached the US-built Unity ...
CEO Aleksey Varochko added that the Center was repeatedly recognized by Boeing as the top supplier in ISS creation MOSCOW, November 20. /TASS/. Cooperation between the Khrunichev Center and Boeing in ...
Baikonur awoke to a cool dawn on Nov. 20, 1998, the ubiquitous murk of a dour winter’s sky and the sober tan landscape of the featureless Kazakh steppe hardly conducive to a fine day. Yet on that ...
Wednesday marks the 25th anniversary of a momentous event in space exploration - the mating of the first two modules of the International Space Station (ISS), Zarya and Unity. This significant ...
The ISS in 2001, when it only had four modules: Unity, Destiny, Zarya and Zvezda With bilateral relations being at their worst since the 1980s and the station’s planned death in sight, persistent air ...