Yet another thing that dismays me is that no professional cosmonauts have posted blogs or journals online from the ISS. The NASA astronauts have, but the cosmonauts remain silent. As they are government employees, the astronaut journals tend to be somewhat bland (if they said anything controversial I guess they would not fly again!), and are static HTML journals (not blogs with comments enabled). It would be good publicity for the Russian space program if the cosmonauts did keep journals.
One cosmonaut, Sergei Ryazanskii (not yet flown in space), has a Livejournal (thanks to “Siberian Tiger” for finding it!), though it seems to have “died” (not updated since March this year – lost interest? Too busy?). The approximate title translation is, “Thoughts of nothing, or of everything at once”. He also has a website.
News tidbits:
“Russian Space Program Fuels Up With New Ideas For Earth Sciences And More”, Space Daily.
