Topic: Russia
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 ...
International team of researchers to spend 520 days in isolation imitating mission to MarsA manned mission to Mars may be decades away, but an international team of researchers will try to experience what one might be like by locking themselves up in ...
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts on board landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Russia's Mission Control said. Russian Oleg Kotov, NASA's Timothy Creamer and Japan's Soichi Noguchi arrived near the town of Zhezkazgan as ...
One Russian and two Americans set to fly to the International Space Station voiced nostalgia Monday for the retiring US space shuttle, which will make its final visit to the ISS this year. Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and US astronauts Douglas Wheelock ...
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