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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A Russian cargo ship is poised for liftoff on Sunday to the International Space Station following a launch accident in August that cut staffing levels aboard the orbital outpost.The Progress freighter, due to launch at 6:11 a.m. ...

STAR CITY, Russia (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. astronaut Daniel Burbank said on Monday he was eager to fly Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, likening it to a sports car and NASA's space shuttle to a big truck.Burbank has twice ...

KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana Friday bearing the first two satellites in Europe's Galileo global positioning system.The launch from Europe's space base in South America -- the first for a Soyuz rocket outside ...

Engineers were eyeing a second bid at the historic launch of a Soyuz rocket from Europe's space base in South America after a countdown was scrubbed by a refuelling hitch.The Soviet-Russian lifter, which traces its ancestry to the dawn of the space ...

Europe announced a 24-hour delay in the maiden launch Thursday of a Russian rocket laden with the first satellites in a rival scheme to America's GPS geopositioning system.The first launch of the legendary Soyuz from Europe's space base was scrubbed some two ...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (Reuters) - An extra year of buying rides for astronauts to the International Space Station will cost the United States $450 million -- money that would be better spent speeding development of private space taxis, NASA's deputy administrator ...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (Reuters) - A start-up space company building inflatable habitats for commercial and government lease has laid off half its staff because of delays developing space taxis needed to fly people to the outposts, the company president said on ...

STAR CITY, Russia (Reuters) - The United States may have put the first man on the moon, but Russian scientists and space explorers are now gazing at a new goal -- setting up a colony on the moon.The discovery of volcanic tunnels ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz rocket will blast off from French Guiana on Thursday in a new East-West partnership designed to redraw commercial competition in space.The scheduled lift-off is the first time that Soyuz, which first flew in 1966 and traces ...

Russia's chief prosecutor on Tuesday blamed a recent spate of disasters threatening the future of the International Space Station (ISS) on negligence by the country's underpaid rocket scientists.A probe into the August 24 crash of the unmanned Progress cargo ship and an ...

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Topic: Russia

Russia poised to resume space station flights

U.S. astronaut eager for "sports car" space ride

Soyuz rocket blasts off from French Guiana

Europe sets sights again on Soyuz launch

Maiden launch of Soyuz with sat-nav payload delayed

Back space taxis or pay more for Russian rides: NASA

Space taxi delays spur Bigelow Aerospace layoffs

Russians see room for moonbase in lunar lava caves

Soyuz set for first French Guiana launch

Russia blames scientists for rocket crashes

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