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, 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, 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, 2007
Russia will join the U.S Moon exploration program if Washington provides the necessary funding, a Russian space representative said Tuesday.
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December 5, 2006Astronaut 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, 2006Russia will build a deep space exploration telescope that will outstrip the U.S.-made Hubble Space Telescope, a Russian astronomer said Tuesday.
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November 21, 2006NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency have named two astronauts and two cosmonauts to the next International Space Station crew.
Astronauts Clayton Anderson and Daniel Tani will travel to the station next year and work as flight engineers. Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov will spend six months aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Anderson will journey to the station aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour’s STS-118 mission, targeted for launch next June. He will return to Earth on shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-120. That flight will carry his replacement, Tani, to the station. Tani will return on shuttle mission STS-122, scheduled for October 2007.
NASA said Yurchikhin will command Expedition 15, and Kotov will serve as station flight engineer and Soyuz commander. Yurchikhin and Kotov will fly to the complex aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to launch in March. Until Anderson arrives, astronaut Sunita Williams will serve as Expedition 15’s third crew member and flight engineer. She will fly to the station on STS-116 in December.
The Expedition 15 backup crew members are astronaut Gregory Chamitoff for Anderson, Sandra Magnus for Tani, and Russian cosmonauts Roman Romanenko and Mikhail Kornienko for Yurchikhin and Kotov.
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October 19, 2006The Russian space agency on Wednesday said the attempt to launch a solar sail space vehicle was not successful because the booster rocket’s engine failed soon after it blasted into space, The Associated Press reported.
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