Posted on 09/02/2016 5:50:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
Zvezdny Gorodok (the Moscow Region), September 2, Interfax - Member of the new International Space Station crew Sergey Ryzhikov is going to take icons, the Gospels, letters from his relatives, and stones from Mount Tabor.
At a press conference in the Astronaut Training Center named after the first Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin he also said that the crew call is 'Tabor' after the holy mount in Israel where Christ was supposed to transfigure 40 days before the crucifix.
The launch of the piloted spaceship Soyuz MS 02 that will deliver the new crew to the ISS is planned for September 23. The crew includes Russian cosmonauts and NASA astronaut, the planned duration of the flight is 155 days.
There’s a little good in everyone.
Russia sends men into space with their space program? That isn’t very progressive. What about moslem outreach?
That's the 'outreach' as far as I'm concerned.
Let them reach out blindly until they turn blue. Or freeze to death.
Very cool. Russia is experiencing a religious resurgence. Even President Putin goes to services.
I agree it is wonderful that this crew is carrying religious objects up to the ISS.
But they have a ways to go before they top the worldwide broadcast reading of the first ten verses of Genesis while televising images of Earth from orbit around the Moon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8
Given the present attitude of the US Government towards religion, especially the Christian religion, that won’t be happening again anytime soon.
Marilyn Murray O’Hair sued NASA over the reading of the first ten verses of Genesis on Apollo 8.
I doubt Americans are allowed to carry such items to the station, even though Russia’s providing the ride.
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