Puschino Astronomical observatory
The first initiative to create big radio telescopes in the USSR is dated 1951. They were intended to observe the sun radiation and radiation of other space sources on centimeter and millimeter waves. (more…)
Expecting to Fly
Since space exploration rose much higher than the sky last decade, every country set itself a goal to keep it going not to be on the back foot. Most probably, every one of you has already heard about commonly known Baikonur spaceport, so today we are going to tell you a bit about the other one, less known spaceport as well as about launching of a space vehicle.
Worlds First Space Blogger
The online blog of astronaut Maksim Suraev is an event of international and spacewide standing. For the first time in history, Russian cosmonaut will be posting news and different interesting stories with lots of photos straight from the outer space.
Space things
As Russia is being the first country to cross the threshold of space, it has lots of so-called “Space cities”. Usually, they are situated in some cities where the great Soviet and Russian cosmonauts were born and all the things from astronauts’ food to the models of most renowned space shuttles are displayed there.
Soyuz TMA-11 Is Back Home
That’s a piece of Siberian tundra burning, but why? That’s no forest fire but what you see here is a landing site of Russian Soyuz spaceship.
Russian Army Telescopes
Russian army has space vessels and it needs good telescopes to control the fleet. Some like those ones in the mountains of Tajikistan, previously very secret location, now is sometimes open for the visitors.
Cocosmanaut and Cactusmanaut
In Russia astronauts are being called “cosmonauts”, but this is not the case.
Those are two widely discussed Russian heroes: cocosmonaut and cactusmonaut.
They travel to cocosmos (space).
Where Do Shuttles Go?
For those, who wondered “Where did all the three Russian shuttles go?”. One has been found on the backyard of some repairing shop.
The Neutrino Lab
Deep inside this mound there is an ex-to-be-very-secret Russian neutrino lab. It belongs to the Russian Nuclear Research Center and was build to explore the neutrino particle properties.
It is a multi stored underground lab which is on 1000 ft (330 meters) deep mark inside this hill. It is also 11,000 ft (3600 meters) long and contains hundreds of rooms with the equipment, mainly the neutrino detection radars.
This radars are big metal tanks filled with white-spirit that has a light emission detectors and multipliers. They register neutrino mini-blasts in this white spirit environment and sent the real time reports to the main computer you would see its terminal below.
These tanks with radars occupy many many rooms on different floors so that none of the neutrino folk could pass unnoticed here.
Vodka Space
Well, what would be the best thing for a Russian astronaut to show from the International Space Station for the entertainment TV viewers in Russia? Probably some Westerners would answer: “Hey, show how to drink vodka in zero gravity conditions!”. And here the Russian cosmonaut drinks it right on ISS!
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