Topic: Europe
Russia's space agency voiced outrage Tuesday after the defence ministry refused one of its cosmonauts a celebrated state honour, in the first such snub in half a century of Soyuz flights. Cosmonaut Maxim Surayev, who returned to Earth in March after six ...
Putin says all manned space missions will use Russia's new launch center starting 2018Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Russia will be launching its manned space missions from a new launching pad in the Far East in 2018. Putin visited the town of ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will employ technologies, initially meant for outer space research programs, to develop its vast energy sector, Energy Ministry said on Tuesday in yet another sign of the Kremlin's modernization drive. The ministry said in a statement it signed ...
Elderly US astronauts reunited with their Soviet-era counterparts in Moscow on Wednesday to mark the 35th anniversary of their epic "handshake in space" in 1975 at the height of the Cold War. Apollo astronauts Tom Stafford and Vance Brand joked with Soyuz ...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday Russia would earmark 800 million dollars to kick off the construction of a new cosmodrome to ease its dependence on a Soviet-era launch site in Kazakhstan. "The government has made a decision to earmark 24.7 billion ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An unmanned Russian cargo vessel experienced problems during a docking with the International Space Station on Friday, the Interfax news agency reported, citing the commander of the orbital station. The Progress cargo ship "is moving away from us," Interfax ...
The two final US space shuttle missions before the shuttle program is phased out will likely be postponed, a NASA spokesperson told AFP. "It's not official yet but it's very likely," said Allard Beutel, media services chief at the Kennedy Space Center ...
Scientists in Australia's vast Outback on Monday recovered a capsule that they hope contains the first piece of asteroid ever brought to Earth -- perhaps offering a glimpse into ancient space history. The pod was ejected from a Japanese space probe as ...
Scientists in Australia's vast Outback on Monday recovered a capsule that they hope contains the first piece of asteroid ever brought to Earth -- perhaps offering a glimpse into ancient space history. The pod was ejected from a Japanese space probe as ...
A capsule that scientists hope will contain a little slice of outer space after a seven-year journey across the solar system was being recovered Monday from the Australian Outback, officials said. The pod, which was ejected from a Japanese space probe as ...
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