RuSpace updates
2024
18/9/2024
I have lost enthusiasm for Russian spaceflight again, due to the ongoing hostilities as noted previously, and to personal circumstances (as a carer for ageing parents) – I no longer have the energy to maintain and update this site, so it is currently frozen.
2023
7/3/2023
Ceremonies page re-added! This still needs some work. The unpleasant situation with Russia being ostracized by the West continues, and the spaceflight program is affected. This site is still updated, but the rabid hostility is distressing, and some Russian spaceflight sites are inaccessible by normal means.
2022
16/10/2022
Mir space station page re-added!
29/4/2022
Updates to Cosmonaut News and Cosmonaut Group.
24/4/2022
Cosmonaut survival training page (re)added!
16/4/2022
Cosmonaut News updated.
6/4/2022
Behind-the-scenes/under-the-hood work: Cosmonaut VKDs (spacewalks) listed on the Cosmonaut Group page are now crosslinked to the VKD page. I am planning to crosslink the Soyuz and Progress flight pages to each cosmonaut who flew on them. This is all done by hand so it will take a while!
3/4/2022
Russian space news updated.
1/4/2022
Updates to Cosmonaut News and Cosmonaut Group.
28/4/2022
Russian space news updated.
27/4/2022
Russian space news updated.
13/4/2022
Russian space news updated.
10/4/2022
Due to the current hostilities between Russian and the West, access to some Russian spaceflight websites, such as Roskosmos and Energia, is currently unavailable outside of Russia (I can only follow some news via the NK forum). Note that I unapologetically take the unpopular view of supporting Russia (see my 2022 Journal for thoughts), which makes me a pariah here; the barrage of anti-Russian propaganda in the MSM is unrelenting. The co-operation between Russia and other space partners has been badly fractured and may be unrepairable.
4/4/2022
Active and retired cosmonauts tables now on the one page.
2021
22/4/2021
The sixth Russian ISS module, Nauka MLM, successfully launched yesterday, at long last! ISS Russian segment page updated.
23/4/2021
Russian spacesuits page added: covers both the Orlan spacesuit and Sokol pressure suit.
22/4/2021
Decided to reinstate the ISS launches page – a summary of all launches – with a few minor changes.
12/4/2021
Decided to remove the ISS Crews page as, with the introduction of crews taken up by commercial flights, it is getting too complicated for me to keep up with! I will focus even more narrowly on Soyuz manned flights, Progress cargo flights, spacewalks in Russian spacesuits and cosmonauts.
29/4/2021
New cosmonaut candidates announced (Cosmonaut news for 28/1/2021); updates to Cosmonaut Group page.
2020
19 November
Still removing pages; content is now narrowly focused on the Cosmonaut Group, Russian spacewalks on the ISS wearing Orlan spacesuits, and Soyuz and Progress flights to the ISS.
12/4/2020
Decided to drastically reduce my RuSpace site to a small number of pages – mainly ISS-related data tables – as I currently do not have the energy to try to maintain and update everything. So I have removed links below to now-missing pages. I may re-add some pages slowly if I get around to rewriting them.
21/4/2020
Roskosmos interview with Sergei Krikalyov added to his news page.
17/4/2020
TsUP (Moscow Mission Control) page updated with a diagram of the Control Room functions.
11/4/2020
Due to a bicycle accident I was in (hit by a car), I have done little in RuSpace since then :-( as I have been too unsettled, healing from injuries and exhausted. I am still interested in the site though!
20/4/2020
A minor update to the Future Russian ISS modules page with some news from Roskosmos of the next, much-delayed module due to be launched, Nauka. The Gidrolaboratory is also being returned to use after closure for upgrading in 2014. I am doing minor updates here and there when I am able to.
10/4/2020
Thought I would try reinstating my Updates page here, rather than a brief transitory note on the front page. I seem to have a resurgence of interest in the Russian spaceflight program again this year, so I am slowly revising some pages, as my mental health and energy levels allow (mostly low). Expedition 63 successfully launched on Soyuz MS-16, so the relevant pages (ISS Soyuz flights and crews) have been updated. The Soyuz and Proton rocket pages have also been revised a bit, though they are still a little muddled.
I managed to make a logo of sorts for this site, using GIMP.
Kosmonavtka updates page
An updates page from my old Geocities site, as preserved at the Archive.org site (images were not included) – and a local copy if the offsite one is unavailable.
3:07 PM Tuesday, 7 March 2023