Tag: space travel

Soyuz MS-03 Successfully Launches to the ISS

Space
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Today has really been a space heavy day for me, hasn’t it? Today marks the successful launch of Soyuz MS-03, sending another 3 person crew, Oleg Novitskiy, Peggy Whitson, and Thomas Pesquet, to the International Space Station. I don’t have much commentary: not that Soyuz launches are boring (far from it) but there really isn’t […]

55 Years Ago, The Flight of Vostok 1

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The year was 1961. The Cold war was at it’s peak intensity, and both the Soviet Union and the United States were rushing to prove their technological superiority by putting a human into space. It was 3  years since Sputnik, since Explorer 1, and in that time both United States and Soviet booster, life support, […]