Belyayev’s birthday ‘candle’: Russia launches ISS cargo ship with logo honoring cosmonaut’s centennial (video)
Russia celebrated a late cosmonaut’s upcoming 100th birthday on Thursday (Feb. 27), by lighting a huge “candle” and delivering “gifts” to his modern-day colleagues living in orbit. The launch shroud encasing the uncrewed Progress MS-30 (or Progress 91, as NASA refers to it) resupply spacecraft was decorated with a logo commemorating the centennial of Pavel …