Science

The Charms of Soyuz: Blasting Off In a Crazy Russian Rocket

Our astronaut guest blogger Leroy Chiao is one of the few spacemen to have flown in both a US Space Shuttle and Russia’s five-decade-old spacecraft, the Soyuz—any guess which one he prefers?


January 19, 2009
Science

Forty Years Ago, A Cosmonaut Experienced What Can Only Be Described as ‘Hell’

We cover a lot of cool NASA space shuttle stuff here at Gizmodo, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention an important milestone for that other vital spacecraft, out of Russia, the Soyuz.