“Maybe we should change our perspective on how to communicate with patients? What technologies and working methods should we use?”

– Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko

Thirty-four years ago this week, the Mir Space Station was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Is a meteorite fragment from the 2013 Cheyabinsk incident attempting to phone home? Not clear. But Stranger Things are definitely afoot.

The first earthling to perish in space was the Soviet space dog Laika. Soon thereafter, the first earthlings to orbit the planet – 60 years ago this summer – were Belka and Strelka.

There are two kinds of fast learners: robots and schoolchildren. Meanwhile, an odd cosmonaut tradition comes under siege.

The moon landing as it was (not) seen from Russia.

Summer starts with flies, without ice cream

Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk among the stars, gets an unusual birthday greeting from space.

An invincible rocket survives lightning, teachers cosplay as Avengers, and a kid plays on a swing.

For Cosmonautics Day 2019, Anna Radchenko directs a surreal meditation on space. Watch the complete film on Russian Life.

Take a rocket launch into the dizzying expanses of Soviet space propaganda.

Curling snow drifts along the Dnieper River remind of a Hokusai painting.