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Gennady Strekalov, who died on Christmas Day aged 64, was a cosmonaut who enjoyed mixed fortunes. He was part of the crew of Soyuz craft that successfully docked with the Salyut space station and of ...

The new crew on the Soviet space station Mir began its first full day of work aboard the complex Saturday, focusing on experiments to create pure “crystals” for use in semiconductors, Tass said.

Two Russian cosmonauts on Monday made their third spacewalk in 10 days to prepare for the docking of a research module and the arrival of the U.S. shuttle Atlantis in late June. Mission Commander ...

Gennady Strekalov, who died on Christmas Day aged 64, was a cosmonaut who enjoyed mixed fortunes; he was part of the crew of Soyuz craft which sucessfully docked with the Salyut space station (and one ...