Russian Space News 16-MAY-08 en-us Moscow (AFP) May 14, 2008 - Russian cargo ship Progress M-64 set off from Kazakhstan overnight on Wednesday for the International Space Station, the centre for control of space flights (Tsoup) told national news agencies.]]> ]]> Washington (AFP) April 23, 2008 - The irregular landing of a Russian space capsule last week is not a "major problem," a top NASA official said, despite reports that the astronauts on board could have died.]]> Star City, Russia (AFP) April 21, 2008 - The first South Korean in space together with the American and a Russian who accompanied her said on Monday they were recovering well after a gruelling "ballistic" descent to Earth.]]> Moscow (XNA) Apr 14, 2008 - Russia is going to create a manned assembly complex in orbit, the chief of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) Anatoly Perminov said here on Saturday. "We shall create this complex in order to make dockings in orbit, build craft there and send them to the Moon, Mars and other planets," Perminov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as telling a new briefing.]]> ]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008 - In January, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said that 2008 would be a "landmark year for Russian cosmonautics". Now the Russian Security Council, which met in Moscow under President Putin's chairmanship on April 11, ahead of Cosmonautics Day, has defined where that landmark will be.]]> Moscow (RIA Novsoti) Apr 15, 2008 - Flight tests of a new-generation Russian space launch vehicle will start in 2010, the director of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said on Monday. The Angara rocket, currently under development, is designed to put heavy payloads into orbit. It is mainly planned for launch from the Plesetsk space center, in northwest Russia, which will reduce Moscow's dependence on Kazakhstan's Baikonur, the main launch pad for the current generation of Russian rockets.]]> Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 15, 2008 - Visiting the Baikonur space cosmodrome deep in the steppes of Kazakhstan is like taking a trip back into Soviet times -- and that's just the way many here want it to stay.]]> ]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008 - Russia should not only be involved in orbiting foreign-made satellites and payloads but promote its hi-tech developments and services, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. "We need to significantly expand our presence on the global market for space products and services," he said. He said an effective space program could become a significant factor in innovative economic development, calling for new ambitious space projects to be implemented.]]> Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2008 - Russia will end manned space launches from Kazakhstan's Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome by 2020, replacing it with a launch pad in Russia, a top official said Friday, Interfax news agency reported.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 08, 2008 - Russia's Progress M-63 space cargo ship was successfully 'buried' on Monday at a spaceship cemetery in the southern Pacific, a Mission Control spokesman said. "Having partly burned up in the Earth's dense atmosphere, Progress ended its existence in the designated area in the southern Pacific," the spokesman said.]]> ]]> ]]> Moscow (AFP) March 27, 2008 - Russia's popular Komsomolskaya Pravda daily has put forward a new theory for the death of Soviet hero Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, in a fighter jet crash 40 years ago on Thursday.]]> Korolev, Russia (SPX) Mar 25, 2008 - At OAO S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the Chief Designers Board meeting chaired by V.A. Lopota, the Corporation President, General Designer, took place. Among the issues under review were the following: current state of the International Space Station (ISS) Russian Segment (RS) and going on with its mission Program implementation, progress in prelaunch processing of Soyuz OIA-12 transport manned space vehicle and final works phase, which Expedition 16 (ISS-16) crew will perform.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 16, 2008 - Part of the wreckage of a carrier rocket that fell in Siberia after takeoff from Kazakhstan last month has been removed from land owned by a Russian shepherd, local officials said on Friday. Specialists from the Russian space agency Roscosmos traveled to the farm in the Altai Republic, "cut the fragment into parts and loaded it on a Mi-8 helicopter," a spokesman for the local administration said.]]> Advertise in this newsletter or website click for advertising kit - PDF File

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