Russia has conducted a launch of an SS-18 Satan intercontinental ballistic missile from a silo in the Urals to launch a U.S. civilian satellite into orbit, a spokesman for the Strategic Missile Forces said Thursday.
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June 29, 2007Russian engineers failed on Friday to fix malfunctioning navigational computers on the orbiting International Space Station but said they did not foresee having to evacuate the three crew.
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June 17, 2007The chief of Russia’s space agency said that the United States has rejected a proposal for the two countries to explore the moon together, a Russian news agency reported.
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May 13, 2007The United States has rejected a proposal from Russia to explore the moon together, Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency, said.
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May 2, 2007The fifth space tourist Charles Simonyi is very optimistic and full of hopes as he came back to the Earth, the Reuters news agency reports.
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April 26, 2007U.S. space tourist Charles Simonyi returned safely to Earth on Saturday, touching down with a Russian-U.S. crew in the steppe of Central Asia the Reuters news agency reports.
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April 23, 2007U.S. space tourist Charles Simonyi enjoyed an extra day in space on Tuesday when boggy ground meant the date and location of his return to Earth in a capsule with two others had to be changed, the Reuters news agency reported Monday.
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April 18, 2007The Kremlin has vetoed a move to launch a fresh investigation into the death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, despite aviation specialists’ belief that they have unraveled one of the 20th century’s greatest enigmas.
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April 12, 2007Russia is working on a space transport system that could eventually lead to the industrialization of the moon, the Reuters news agency quoted a Russian space expert as saying.
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The world’s richest man Bill Gates is considering a possible flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates’ colleague, current space tourist Charles Simonyi.
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