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Soyuz 100 Times More Reliable Than Shuttle Moscow, Russia (Pravda) Feb 08, 2010 
Richard Garriott, a videogame developer, who once boarded Russia's Soyuz rocket for a space flight said that the Russian-made ship was much more reliable than its foreign analogues.
Garriott, whose father is a former NASA astronaut, paid $30 million for a flight to the iInternational Space station. He said in a televised conference that Soyuz was 100 times more a reliable spacecraft than U ... read moreRussian space cargo vessel heads for ISS 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 3, 2010A Russian cargo vessel took off Wednesday from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan heading for the International Space Station (ISS), the control centre announced. The launch of the Progress spaceship was carried out "as planned" at 0345 GMT and nine minutes later it separated from its booster rockets, a spokesman said quoted by Interfax news agency. The vessel, carrying 2.7 tonnes o ... more
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Europe battles declining influence
Prius: world's most popular hybrid Russia wants to charge more for rides to space: report Russia, China agree on nuclear construction cost: report China-born aerospace engineer gets 15 years for spying Mexico climate summit set for early December in Cancun Climate change impact of soil underestimated: study US government plans new climate service US shuttle Endeavour reaches orbit US shuttle Endeavour blasts off on way to space station 
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Russia launches military satellite: report
Moscow (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 Russia successfully launched Thursday a military satellite from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian news agencies reported. The Proton-M rocket carrying the satellite blasted off from Baikonur at 0318 GMT and was due to release it into orbit at 0919 GMT Thursday, the RIA Novosti news agency cited as saying the spokesman for the Russian military space forces, Alexei Zolotukhin. ... more Cosmonauts Earn 150000 Dollars A Mission 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2010Russian cosmonauts receive up to $150,000 for a mission on board the International Space Station (ISS), a senior space official said Thursday. "For six months of work on the ISS, a Russian cosmonaut gets an equivalent of $130,000-150,000 in Russian currency," Vladimir Solovyev said, head of the Russian segment of the ISS. Solovyev admitted that the cosmonauts' work in orbit is diffic ... more Russia To Launch 10 Spaceships In 2010 
Moscow (SPX) Jan 06, 2010Russia plans to launch 10 spacecraft this year, including four manned spacecraft and six cargo spaceships, the Russian spacecraft manufacturer Rocket and Space Corporation Energia said Monday. Four Soyuz-TMA space capsules and six Progress cargo ships are scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) this year, the company said, adding that experiments on a new series o ... more Russia Launches Another Trio To International Space Station 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 21, 2009Three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States blasted off early Monday morning amid harsh weather conditions for a Christmas voyage to the International Space Station. The Soyuz rocket blasted off on schedule from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the barren Kazakh steppe at 3:52 am (2152 GMT Sunday) carrying Soichi Noguchi of Japan, US astronaut Timothy Creamer and Russian ... more |
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Kazakhstan Plays Down Baikonur Spat
Astana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Nov 26, 2009 Kazakhstan moved to play down a spat with Russia over a delay in a rocket launch from the Russian-leased space center in the Central Asian republic earlier this week, saying it was a result of a misunderstanding. Russia's launch of a European communications satellite on a Proton rocket from Baikonur was delayed from Monday until late Tuesday, which sparked a bitter exchange of accusations between the two ex-Soviet nations. ... more Pioneering Soviet cosmonaut dies aged 79: reports 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Pavel Popovich, a leading figure in the pioneering generation of early cosmonauts and the fourth Soviet man to go to space, died on Wednesday at a sanatorium aged 79, space officials said. Popovich is best known for piloting the Vostok-4 probe that in August 1962 took part in the first ever instance of two manned satellites orbiting the earth at the same time, a trip that made him the sixth ... more European agency eyes Russian spacecraft 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 29, 2009 Europe may buy a Soyuz spacecraft to try to ensure at least one European astronaut heads to space each year, officials say. Simonetta Di Pippo, director of human spaceflight for the European Space Agency, told the BBC the agency has asked Moscow if it could increase production of Soyuz spacecrafts from four to five a year. That could enable the ESA, possibly in a partnership with the ... more Soyuz launch from French Guiana delayed: Russia
Moscow (AFP) Aug 25, 2009The first launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket from the European Space Agency base at Kourou in French Guiana has been postponed until April 2010, Russia's Progress space programme said Tuesday. The postponement is due to a delay "linked to a mobile launch pad," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Progress director Alexander Kirilin as saying. The first launch of a Soyuz in cooperation with the ... more |
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