On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space. This was the first time cosmonauts completed zero-G training on an airplane.

A Russian cosmonaut was removed from an upcoming mission to the International Space Station after he allegedly took pictures of a SpaceX rocket’s engines and classified documents, according to reports ...

The cosmonaut training centre : birth and growth -- Simulators -- Other national and international facilities -- Survival training -- The cosmonaut group of the RGNII TsPK -- The cosmonaut group of ...