Sergei Krikalev was forced to orbit the Earth for months in the Soviet Union's Mir space station as his bones and muscles were damaged by microgravity. Comments. News.

Sergei Krikalev blasted off in 1991 for a routine mission to Mir space station. What awaited him, however, was anything but ordinary.

Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut and head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.Wikipedia The crew of the damaged Soyuz MS-22 will ...

S cience and politics have crossed paths throughout history. But Russian astronaut Sergei Krikalev had never imagined that he ...

Watch the C-SPAN collection of videos, access clips including recent appearances by Sergei Krikalev. View positions held along with a brief bio.

Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent over 311 days in space while the Soviet Union fell in 1991. Credit: NASA / Newsmakers via Getty Images. It's not clear if Krikalev was prevented from participating.

Lance Bass' latest podcast series tells the story of Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and his 313 days in space amid the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Sergei Krikalev, a veteran cosmonaut who serves as the director of crewed space flight programs at Roscosmos, said Thursday that a meteorite striking one of the radiators of the Soyuz MS-22 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Sergei Krikalev is an Executive Director for Piloted Spaceflight in the Roscosmos State Space Corporation with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...