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Russia To Build New Space Center In The Far East
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008In January, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said that 2008 would be a "landmark year for Russian cosmonautics". Now the Russian Security Council, which met in Moscow under President Putin's chairmanship on April 11, ahead of Cosmonautics Day, has defined where that landmark will be. The Council said that the key program of Russia's space industry (at least as regards ground ... more Russia Continues Flight Simulation Experiments For Mars-500 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008Four volunteers will spend ten days in a compression chamber with a reduced oxygen level as preparation for Mars-500, a Russian ground-based experiment to simulate a flight to Mars. A spokesman for the Moscow-based Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Issues, which runs the project, said that four healthy men will be held in a chamber with the pressure equivalent to being five meters ... more EBRD says will help pay for Chernobyl sarcophagus 
London (AFP) April 17, 2008The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said Thursday it would offer 135 million euros (215 million dollars) to help finance a new sarcophagus around the Chernobyl reactor, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident. An EBRD spokesman told AFP the bank would contribute to a global fund to finance a safe enclosure at the facility, located in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine ... more Russia Needs Billions More To Complete It's ISS Segment 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008Russia will need an additional $5 billion to finish the construction of its segment of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2015, the head of Russia's rocket and space corporation Energia said Friday. The ISS is a joint project of space agencies from the United States, Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan. The orbital station is likely to remain operational until 2020. "So far, we have all ... more 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 |
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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 Russia To Test Flight New-Generation Space Rocket In 2010 
Moscow (RIA Novsoti) Apr 15, 2008Flight tests of a new-generation Russian space launch vehicle will start in 2010, the director of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said on Monday. The Angara rocket, currently under development, is designed to put heavy payloads into orbit. It is mainly planned for launch from the Plesetsk space center, in northwest Russia, which will reduce Moscow's dependence on Kazakhstan' ... more In last Soviet outpost, space pioneers cling on 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 15, 2008Visiting the Baikonur space cosmodrome deep in the steppes of Kazakhstan is like taking a trip back into Soviet times - and that's just the way many here want it to stay. There are no Internet cafes, no advertising billboards and - to hear it from proud residents - none of the social problems that afflict large Russian cities like hooliganism and xenophobic violence. A statue of Lenin ... more Five Orphaned Bears Get A New Life In Russia - Satellite Tracking Will Monitor Survival 
Bubonitsy, Russia (SPX) Apr 15, 2008In the forest of the Tver region of Russia, researchers from IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) and veterinarians from the Moscow Zoo have returned five orphaned bear cubs to the wild. Prior to the release, the team performed veterinary checks and tagged the bears for monitoring. One of these bears will be monitored using a satellite collar, a step forward in evaluating post ... more |
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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 Space Research Can Improve Life On Earth 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008Countries sending their citizens into space for the first time proudly call them their Gagarins, with good reason. Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961. Since then, many countries joined space exploration, and Russia has recently sent its 101st and 102nd cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS). They will work together with South Korea's Yi So-y ... more Statue To Pioneering Russian Space Dog Unveiled In Moscow 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008A bronze monument to a former street dog called Laika, which was the first living creature in space and paved the way for manned flights, was unveiled in northwest Moscow on Friday. The monument, erected a day before Russia's Cosmonautics Day celebrated on April 12, is a two-meter (6.5 feet) high space rocket with Laika proudly standing on top. The three-year-old mongrel, originally named ... more US push for new security mechanism irks Southeast Asia 
Washington (AFP) April 13, 2008US-led moves to turn a forum grappling with the North Korean nuclear crisis into a permanent security mechanism are frustrating Southeast Asia's bid to become a key player in regional security, experts say. The United States is pushing for the six-party nuclear talks, also involving China, Russia, Japan and the two Koreas, to be transformed into a permanent Northeast Asian mechanism for ... more
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