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http://community.sk.ru/news/b/articles/archive/2014/09/16/lin-industrial--a-slingshot-into-space.aspx Lin Industrial is a Russian startup business that believes sending satellites into space should be less epic blastoff and more paper airplane. Only recently entering the Skolkovo fold as a...

Hi Guys / Ladies. I'm a keeper of a little website and Internet bookstore available by the link https://agenty-buduschego.ru It is targeted to Russian speakers (because concentrated around Russian-speaking science fiction authors), so there's no internationalization there on, sorry. Still, I...

http://ria.ru/society/20140618/1012545627.html Vladimir Popovkin who held the position of head of Roscosmos between 2011 and 2013 has died today after prolonged fighting a cancer in age of 57. R.I.P.

Did you know today's one? http://www.un.org/en/events/happinessday/ I wish all the happy to be happy and all the rest to join the crowd! :thumbup:

The second one out of those who shook hands during the first rendez-vous of spacecraft from the USSR and the USA back in 1975, flight engineer Valeriy Kubasov, has passed away today, according to Roscosmos message. May his final path to the start be smooth. :salute:

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/01/21/north-korea-lands-first-ever-man-on-the-sun-confirms-central-news-agency/

Well I think I must not keep silent about it, as there's no more space related subject than that... The IAU approval regarding the naming has been published on January, 16th.

Guys, I know I am mostly looking like I'm a deep space probe coming out of hibernation once in a while to send out a status beep, :hmm: but this is called for by various RL duties I'm sucked into. Happily enough, one such duty has brought me back on track with Orbiter. Here in Moscow we have a...

In Moscow English speakers can have hard time calling and understanding subway (the Metro) destination and line crossing stations even if they use Latin transliterations which can be found at the modern day Metro maps typed in small font under Russian titles. Someone have prepared this...

Few of my friends invested their efforts in the 3D reconstruction of Pripyat' town like it have been before Chernobyl accident in 1986. Their project isn't finished yet, but they've made a video presentation of the current state. The project lead guys are former citizens of the town, which is...

Last summer I have seen and photographed this sign near a toilet flush button in a train from Moscow to St. Petersburg: And this pic (hotel door signs from Bryansk) I've just found on the net: Did you find any other confusing translations in non-English countries?

While the Western world had a Christmas on Dec 25th, my kid has got a first in her lifetime experience of singing a party in an amateur musical performance on the stage of a local community's club, the musical was "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats". I was taking a footage of the performance...

Really! http://pgeps.com/eng/main.asp

Now the last page is turned... Boris Natanovich Strugatsky has passed away today. Together with his elder brother Arkadiy, they were simply the greatest Russian Science Fiction writers of all time. Their books have formed minds of the best people in the previous and mine generation... "The...

And on a new platform, with a new look! http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/ Reading is always encouraged, although it's, as before, a purely Russian language forum, posting in English from time to time is tolerated.

One of my blog friends has just published that. I'm happy to share with you too. This is a 360-deg aerial panorama shot with 5 cameras installed on stratospheric balloon launched over central Russia and assembled with help of AirPano team (these guys travel to shoot aerial panoramas in...

This topic is inspired by the line from the recently published "The Shoals of The Kraken Mare": Hey o hey hear the tug of Titan's tide, My first thought that once Titan is tidally locked, there could be no tide on Titan. But then I tried to calculate the tidal pull caused by Saturn on Titan's...

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/258725/40/Babylon-5-star-Michael-OHare-dies-at-60 Farewell, Commander Sinclair! :salute: