Tag: Space Stations

Valery Polyakov, Who Took the Longest Journey in Space, Dies at 80

Seeking to demonstrate the safety of long space missions, he worked out on his trip and returned 437 days later looking “like he could wrestle a bear,” one astronaut said.

China Set to Launch Space Station Module With Unknown Landing

The Wentian module, the second part of the Tiangong orbital outpost, requires using a massive launcher that has twice conducted uncontrolled re-entries into Earth’s atmosphere.