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Russia To Create Manned Assembly Complex In Orbit
Moscow (XNA) Apr 14, 2008Russia is going to create a manned assembly complex in orbit, the chief of the Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov said here on Saturday. "We shall create this complex in order to make dockings in orbit, build craft there and send them to the Moon, Mars and other planets," Perminov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as telling a new briefing. "This proposal was on the wh ... more Outside View: ABMs for Europe -- Part 1 
Moscow, April 15, 2008 The results of the Bucharest NATO summit, the NATO-Russia Council meetings, and talks between U.S. President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi have been summed up in what has now become a standard comment: The NATO summit made up for suspending the Membership Action Plan for Ukraine and Georgia with the full support for the deployment of an American missile shield in Europe. ... more Foreign powers mull 'incentives' for Iran during nuclear talks 
Washington (AFP) April 16, 2008Talks in China on Iran's nuclear program are focusing on possible "incentives" rather than purely punitive measures against Tehran, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Wednesday. Representatives for the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, China and the European Union are -- "following up on the recommendations of the foreign ministers to look at the incentive ... more NATO chief urges Russia to reverse decision on Georgia regions 
Brussels (AFP) April 16, 2008NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Wednesday called on Russia to reverse its decision to boost ties with the Georgian separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "I am deeply concerned by the actions Russia has taken to establish legal links with the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia," the NATO chief said in a statement. "I urge the Russian Federation to ... more Outside View: Why a Russia-Iran gas fight? 
Moscow, April 15, 2008 Iran has stepped up its diplomatic activity, suggesting that its conflict with the West over its nuclear program is losing momentum, and the use of military force to settle it is no longer the only option. Americans, who are preparing for presidential elections, are more concerned about Iraq and the mortgage crisis. But when analyzing the situation from the Russian perspective ... more |
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Moscow, April 12, 2008 The Russian Federal Space Agency supports space tourism as long as the activity doesn't interfere with its operations, an agency official said. Vitaly Davydov deputy head of the agency, called Roskosmos, said if space tourists on board Russia's Suyoz spacecraft do not interfere with the International Space Station, he has no opposition, ITAR-TASS reported Saturday. Currently, any ... more Expedition On Drifting Ice Floe Produces Unique Data About Hibernal Atmosphere Above Central Arctic 
Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Apr 15, 2008For the first time, a German has taken part in a Russian drift expedition and has explored the atmosphere above the central Arctic during the polar night. Jurgen Graeser, a member of the Potsdam Research Unit of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, has just returned home to Germany. As a member of the Russian expedition NP 35 (35. North ... more Russia Should Promote Hi-Tech, Not Just Space Services - Putin 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008Russia should not only be involved in orbiting foreign-made satellites and payloads but promote its hi-tech developments and services, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. "We need to significantly expand our presence on the global market for space products and services," he said. He said an effective space program could become a significant factor in innovative economic development, calling fo ... more Scrap unlucky 13th mission: Russian space chief
Moscow (AFP) April 14, 2008The next Russian spacecraft should be renamed to avoid the traditionally unlucky number 13, believes the head of Russia's space agency. "In Russia, many people have superstitious beliefs -- black cats, Mondays, the number 13. That's why I think that it is a good idea to change the number of the next space ship," said Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, according to ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 14, 2008Japan on Monday reassured Moscow that an anti-missile shield planned with the US military was no threat to Russia and was aimed only at North Korea. Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow that the missile shield was needed in response to communist North Korea's missile and nuclear programmes. "Concerning cooperation with the United ... more Russia to call for extending ISS use 
Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2008Russia will ask its foreign partners in June to extend the exploitation of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2020 as the station's Russian segment would take longer to complete, Russian space officials said. "We can do what we planned to do by 2010 only in 2015, and so we will have to appeal to our foreign partners to use the ISS until 2020," the chief of Russia's space RKK Energiy ... more Cosmonauts to abandon Soviet-era space base by 2020: report 
Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2008Russia will end manned space launches from Kazakhstan's Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome by 2020, replacing it with a launch pad in Russia, a top official said Friday, Interfax news agency reported. All cosmonauts will instead take off from the new Vostochny base, planned in Russia's southeast near the Chinese border, the head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Anatoly Perminov, was quoted ... more Russia Could Stop Tourist Flights To ISS From 2010
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 11, 2008Space tourist flights to the International Space Station could be stopped from 2010 due to a planned increase in crew numbers on the station, the head of the Russian space agency said Friday. "As part of our current program, space tourist flights to the ISS will continue. But from 2010, difficulties could emerge due to planned increases in ISS crew numbers to between six and nine members ... more
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