Russian 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 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, 2007NASA has signed a contract for $719 million worth of extra Russian space “crew and cargo services†for a period up to 2011, Britains’s The Register reported on Tuesday, April 10.
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April 11, 2007The crew of the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft have met with the colleagues aboard the International Space Station, the Interfax news agency reported quoting Russian mission control.
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April 10, 2007Russian astronauts preparing for next month’s trip to the International Space Station said they would be happy to carry out spacewalks with tourists, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Wednesday.
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March 22, 2007A Russian Soyuz-U rocket with a Progress M-59 space cargo ship has been launched from the Baikonur space center to the ISS.
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January 19, 2007Astronaut Mikhail Tyurin smacked a golf ball into orbit off the International Space Station on Wednesday to raise money for the Russian space program during a spacewalk cut short by a balky spacesuit.
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November 23, 2006Malaysia’s first astronaut will go to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft to play traditional Malay children’s games without gravity, AP reported on Wednesday.
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