cosmonauts flying with us, and there will be other nations flying aboard the International Space Station in the future as well.
file that my cosmonaut buddy gave me.
When one of their cosmonauts was killed in a fire in a training accident, we knew nothing about it, in fact for decades.
And the cosmonauts , even though they were fighter pilots themselves, there was an element in which, a bit like the wider Soviet society,
American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts had seen earth from space many times before.
The Soviet cosmonauts had used it.
I've written about a Russian cosmonaut , who nearly dies on his first ever spacewalk, the first human spacewalk, and how his suit gets
and this secret group of 20 younger cosmonauts , all serving military pilots, who are unknown, no fanfare, no press, not even their families
One of the conditions of these cosmonauts , as they were called, that were picked out of this very rigorous selection process for training
And one of the fellow cosmonauts comes up to him, a good friend, and says, hey, listen, you now, you're number two.
And get helped up by the other cosmonauts , give us a thumbs up, and overall, was doing fine.
The cosmonauts are really.
So that's how he gets onto the cosmonaut training corps.
But NASA started talking about sending an astronaut and a cosmonaut to the Space Station for a year with the idea of, someday,
So it was-- excuse me-- me and this cosmonaut up on the Space Station for a year.
And that was a six-month-long flight my Russian cosmonaut crew mate and I launched.
with space exploration than getting them to draw a cosmonaut or things that.
You've got a duel between the first two cosmonauts .
You talked a lot about your interaction with the cosmonauts , and learning how to fly a Soyuz spacecraft, but also
But I have a lot of respect for the cosmonauts and the people I've worked in the space program with.
And I was crewed up with two Russian cosmonauts , Aleksey and Oleg.
astronauts, or cosmonauts .
of fact, the first Cosmonauts flown in space some of them weren't even pilots.
it with the Soviet Union's approach where the Cosmonauts were really more like passengers in many ways.
Fundamentally, the point about a cosmonaut is that he wasn't going to fly his spaceship, he was going to sit in an automated
it's like a fly on the wall-- by the head of the cosmonaut training group, a guy called Kamanin, who is this kind of Stalinist figure
And then Yuri Malenchenko, a Russian cosmonaut .
friend the guys in the bottom right there the five of the cosmonaut heroes of Russia where became some good friends
And you talked about these 20 cosmonauts that are then being whittled down.
In the tension of the Cold War, there's an astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut shaking hands.
How did that impact the lives of the astronauts versus the cosmonauts ?
And then the Russians, the psychologists sent up some MP3 files to the cosmonauts that were sounds of Earth, like rain, jungle sounds and birds
And talking a little bit about your-- so you talk at length about your experiences with your fellow astronauts and cosmonauts .
We want Japanese astronauts, and we want Russian astronauts-- which would be called cosmonauts , of course-- and many other countries, to join us
I've interviewed a couple of cosmonauts who had spent six month together on Mir.
And yet, again, the fact of it, just being aware that a Soviet cosmonaut was orbiting the earth and passing over the United States
So then how does he go-- he's this now gritty young child-- how does he come to the attention of the cosmonaut recruitment process
But I flew with, here, Anton Shkaplerov, a Russian cosmonaut , and Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian astronaut.
And Anatoli Ivanishin, a second-time flyer from Russia, a Russian cosmonaut .
That's not the best term for an astronaut, cosmonaut , but we just had really interesting conversations.
The pilot cosmonaut Major Gagarin made the following statement, 'I beg to report
But before that, we mentioned that the US astronauts had this enormous sense of celebrity, whereas the cosmonauts were completely anonymous.
There was some serious depression going on at some of the astronauts and cosmonauts have been