Padalka, 58, has already applied for step down and is expected to leave Russian Space Agency Roscosmos cosmonaut corps by April 28. The Cosmonauts’ Training Center (CTC) already confirmed receiving his application and said that it will be processed by an inter-departmental committee. Padalka himself explained his decision by the fact that he has only […]
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Record-holding Russian cosmonaut to retire from Roscosmos space agency (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
April 23rd, 2017 Awake Goy
Russia just announced it’s going back to the moon
September 3rd, 2015 Awake Goy
More than 40 years have passed since any human has walked on the moon, and all of them were American. Russia has some grand plans to change that as the US turns its attention to Mars. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, wants to set up a high-tech lunar base, complete with human […]