Celestials nearby

The first astronauts and astronauts made a splash. The visit of such a celestial not only to a city, to a country, became an event of national scale, and tens and hundreds of thousands of people met the first space explorers. Naturally, letters came to them in bags. Years passed, cosmonautics began to be more relaxed, astronauts became more numerous, and e-mail and social services replaced paper mail. network. Now, at a distance of just a few buttons from you are people who have been in space, and they can give you much more attention than you could dream fifty years ago. I bring to your attention a small review where you can freeze a real astronaut.

Forgotten Championship

Now it is hardly possible to establish who was the first of the astronauts to start a blog or page in the social. network. Obviously, the author of this cosmic achievement did not run to talk about it everywhere, despite some competition inherent in the profession. But older people remember, for example, that in the region of 2004, the only blog of the astronaut in Runet was the blog of Sergei Ryazansky. In 2010, the full-fledged Internet appeared on the ISS, which immediately became actively used. For example, the first tweet from the ISS, history already remembers for sure - here it is . The first astronaut to blog from orbit was Maxim Suraev . In addition to blogs, for example, a story with a special badge is knownfor Foursquare, which was received in 2010 by ISS commander Douglas Wheelock. Well, now the work of astronauts in maintaining their pages is merging into the general popularizing efforts of space agencies and is being carried out very actively.

Resource Roskosmos

Various materials from the ISS are collected on the Roskosmos website in the “ISS mailbox” section . In addition to articles there are wonderful galleries of photos from orbit, made by different astronauts.

Sergey Volkov and Scott Kelly

Now on the ISS are Sergey Volkov, Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly. Mikhail Kornienko occasionally writes to the ISS mailbox. In addition to this, Sergey Volkov has Twitter , and Scott Kelly also has Twitter and FB .

Sergey Ryazansky

Sergei Ryazansky, flight engineer of the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft and a participant in the 37/38 long-term expedition to the ISS, is again going to space. He decided to talk about preparations for the flight planned for the fall of 2017, not only on his website , but also on VK , FB , Instagram and Twitter .

Alexander Misurkin

Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, who visited the ISS as part of the 35/36 expedition, is about to go back into space again next spring. To cover this flight, he created a VK group , in which everyone can now participate in the competition to create a crew logo. The winner of the competition will receive an emblem that has visited the ISS, and a tour of the Cosmonaut Training Center.

Oleg Artemyev

Oleg Artemyev, who returned from the ISS in the fall of 2014, maintains his website and twitter , and he is also the most popular Russian cosmonaut on Instagram - 183 thousand subscribers!

Fedor Yurchikhin

Cosmonaut Fedor Yurchikhin has a blog on LiveJournal . After the flight, new entries rarely appear, but the blog is not abandoned at all, and the solidity of the posts makes them little time-dependent.

Pavel Vinogradov

A completely unofficial FB is led by Pavel Vinogradov, who has celebrated his 60th birthday on the ISS.

In the West

There are a lot of blogs from astronauts in the West, so I will allow myself to make only a very brief squeeze.
A collection of astronaut tweets is kept on a separate official twitter .
Samantha Cristoforetti . The first Italian in space, because of the Progress accident, involuntarily set a record for the length of stay in space among women. She returned in the summer of 2015, on her Twitter and FB you can watch how the life of astronauts goes after a flight. In RuNet there is a translation of her blog in LJ .
The sensational YouTube Chris Headfield, in addition to the FB, has a blog in Tumblrand doesn’t forget to upload new, albeit not from space, videos on his YouTube channel .
Well, a worthy conclusion to the review - Buzz Aldrin , the second person on the moon, leads an active Internet life on his FB . After the flight, he devoted his life to the popularization of astronautics, advertised good computer games with his own name, and, despite his age, he was obviously not going to stop this glorious business.