Topic: Moscow

Engineers fought desperately on Wednesday to save Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft after the Martian probe sent "a first sign of life" more than two weeks after being stranded in orbit.After days of frustrating silence, contact with the probe was made on Tuesday at ...

New crew arrives at ISS

A spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked Wednesday with the International Space Station in the first Russian manned mission for five months after a spate of technical failures.The glitch-free docking of the Soyuz TMA-22 came after a textbook launch on ...

Russian, U.S. crew safely dock with space station

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three astronauts in Russia's Soyuz spacecraft safely docked with the International Space Station on Wednesday, to the relief of agencies who had feared they might have to leave the orbiting base empty for the first time in a decade.Moscow ...

Russian spacecraft docks with ISS

A spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American astronaut docked Wednesday with the International Space Station in the first Russian manned mission for five months after a spate of technical failures.The glitch-free docking of the Soyuz TMA-22 came after a textbook launch ...

Analysis: Botched Mars mission shows Russian industry troubles

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's unsuccessful launch of a Mars moon probe points up the problems of a once-pioneering space industry struggling to recover after a generation of brain drain and crimped budgets.An unmanned craft, launched last Wednesday in what was meant to ...

Russian probe fails to take route for Mars

An unmanned Russian spacecraft on a mission to a Mars moon failed Wednesday to find the right course to the red planet, a potentially devastating blow to Moscow's hopes of resuming planetary exploration.The Phobos-Grunt probe blasted off successfully from the Baikonur cosmodrome ...

Mars' moon lander to return Russia to deep space

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia hopes to end a humiliating two-decade absence from deep space with the launch on Wednesday of an ambitious three-year mission to bring back a soil sample from Mars' moon Phobos.Russian scientists have dreamed of probing the Red Planet's ...

Mars crew "lands" after 520 days in isolation

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pale-faced but smiling, the crew of a long-duration isolation study emerged bleary-eyed to daylight and applause Friday after 520 days locked away in windowless, cramped cells to simulate the length of a journey to Mars.The $15 million Mars500 experiment ...

Fake Mars mission to open hatch on 520 days isolation

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The crew of an isolation experiment to simulate a 520-day mission to Mars are in the final countdown before the opening on Friday of the hatch on the windowless cells in which they have been locked away since June ...

Russia launches first space flight since crash

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia launched its first unmanned space flight to supply the International Space Station Sunday since an August crash left a half-sized crew on the orbital outpost and raised concerns over Moscow's role as the sole space flight provider.The Progress ...
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