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Crete Welcomes Russian Cosmonauts – Honors Yuri Gagarin

2016-10-07 by Delia Gavrilescu

If there ever were a more rigorous, dangerous, and demanding profession, the role of a cosmonaut is surely mission critical. News this week Russian ISS crewmembers Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka are ending 172 days in space on Crete, it says a lot about the healing powers of our favorite island.

Tags: Aldemar, Amemos Grand Luxury Resort, Anemos, cosmonauts, EyeWide Digital, Georgioupolis, Roscosmos, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Thalasso Spa, Thanassis Avgerinos, Yuri Gagarin

Mission to Crete: Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko Tests Philoxenia

2016-07-19 by Liliana Steffens

© Sputnik/ Maksim Blinov

Yuri Malenchenko (54) is at the new Cretan resort Anemos Luxury Grand Resort recouping from 6 months aboard the international space station, according to the news from Chania province.

Tags: Anton Shkaplerov, crete, Crete travel, Greece, Minas Liapakis, NASA, Philoxenia, Roscosmos, Yuri Malenchenko




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