Vzlet kosmicheskogo shattla
25.05.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Chto eto podnimaetsya nad oblakami? Eto kosmicheskii shattl. Esli by na proshloi nedele vy okazalis' na bortu samoleta, proletayushego v nuzhnoe vremya v nuzhnom meste, vy nepremenno by uvideli koe-chto ochen' neobychnoe: zapusk na orbitu kosmicheskogo shattla Indevor.

50 let nazad: polet "Svobody-7"
5.05.2011 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Pyat'desyat let nazad, na zare kosmicheskoi ery chelovechestva, NASA "zazhgli svechu" i zapustili v kosmos na rakete "Krasnyi kamen'" astronavta "Merkuriya" Alana Shepparda. Ego tesnaya kosmicheskaya kapsula nazyvalas' "Svoboda-7". Tretii po schetu kosmicheskii korabl' proekta "Merkurii-Krasnyi kamen'" byl zapushen s mysa Kanaveral vo Floride 5 maya 1961 goda v 9:34 po Vostochnomu vremeni.