The following story happened in 1985 but subsequently vanished into obscurity. Over the years, many details have been twisted, others created. Even the original storytellers got some things just ...

On May 13, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, pilot cosmonaut, double hero of the Soviet Union, celebrated his 80th birthday. Dzhanibekov completed five orbital flights as a spaceship commander, thus becoming the ...

Since it only has two distinct principal moments of inertia, a rotation along the principal axes is hypothesised to be stable — and will not result in the “Dzhanibekov” effect. On the ground ...

MOSCOW, October 4. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the creators of the Salyut-7 movie and with astronauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh late Tuesday evening ...