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Shuttle Stop
The tensest moment in spaceflight: Docking with a 100-ton space station while orbiting Earth at five miles per second.
May 2006 |
By Thomas D. Jones
The Nightmare of Voskhod 2
A cosmonaut remembers the exhilaration-and terror-of his first space mission.
January 2005 |
By Alexei Leonov
The First 1,000 Days
Ghost alarms, foul odors, and a tourist season? Life aboard the International Space Station.
July 2004 |
By Thomas D. Jones
The Other Moon Landings
The Soviets lost the moon race but won a dram of glory with the first robotic craft to roam another world.
March 2004 |
By Andrew Chaikin
Growing Pains
It's the one area of space science in which you get to eat the experiment.
September 2003 |
By Robert Zimmerman
Astronaut, Cosmonaut... Euronaut?
Space exploration may come naturally to Europeans, but it doesn't come easily.
September 2003 |
By William Triplett
The Rest of the Rocket Scientists
Some went west. This is the story of the ones who went east.
September 2003 |
By Anatoly Zak
White Elephant
How the Soviet Buran space shuttle helped the United States win the cold war.
January 2003 |
By Tom Harpole
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Slept Here
Following in the footsteps of the man who invented space travel.
September 2002 |
By Anatoly Zak
Fallen Star
A Russian-born journalist penetrates mission control for Mir's final moments.
July 2001 |
By Anatoly Zak
How to Get Along in Space
NASA has started a new training program to help space station residents fight off cabin fever.
January 2001 |
By Beth Dickey
Saint Yuri
The Russians made their first cosmonaut a hero. Did they really know him?
January 1999 |
By Tom Harpole
Aiming for Arkalyk
Why cosmonauts returning from space face a chilly reception.
September 1998 |
By Craig Mellow
