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US software tycoon makes space history Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 26, 2009 
US software pioneer Charles Simonyi on Thursday became the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist, as he blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS). Simonyi, 60, along with an American and a Russian astronaut, was launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket at 11:49 GMT from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe, in what could be the last space tourist trip for some ... read more
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Virtual Journey To Mars To Begin On 31 March 2009
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 27, 2009The isolation study 'Mars500' focuses on the question how human beings can stay physically and psychologically fit in the extreme conditions of a journey to Mars. On 31 March 2009, the very ambitious isolation experiment will start at the Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Six people will be shut inside an isolation chamber for a period of 105 days ... more Expedition 19 Crew Launches From Baikonur 
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 27, 2009Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt of the 19th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-14 from the Baikonur Coodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:49 a.m. EDT Thursday to begin a six-month stay in space. Less than 10 minutes after launch their spacecraft reached orbit. Its antennas and solar arrays were deployed shortly afterward. With Padalka and ... more Analysis: China can't buy Sukhoi jets 
Hong Kong (UPI) Mar 25, 2009 Some Western media have reported that China is negotiating with Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi Co. for the procurement of 14 Su-33 shipborne fighters, claiming that the contract on the deal will be signed soon. However, Boris D. Bregman, first deputy general director of Sukhoi, said the talks with China are still only at the consultation stage. While confirming that contacts were ... more Analysis: EU crisis sows political chaos 
Berlin (UPI) Mar 26, 2009 Besides shattering Eastern Europe's economies, the financial crisis has also sowed political instability in a range of countries in the region. Now even the government of China -- not exactly known as a caring mother to her family of 1.3 billion -- is warning its people from seeking work in Eastern Europe. Chinese workers should avoid going to Romania, Ukraine or Poland, a statem ... more SSTL Delivers On Russian KANOPUS Missions 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2009Surrey Satellite Technology has delivered to the customer, FSUE NPP VNIIEM, the first two suites of equipment for the KANOPUS-type satellite platforms. The equipment now in Russia has successfully completed two weeks of tests, marking a major milestone for the project and the customer. Work is now underway to integrate the equipment into the first two satellites, under a joint operation wi ... more |
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Arlington, Va. (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 The return of Russia as a world power comes after a brief, economically driven absence in the late 1990s. Russia has been through periods of inward retrenchment before. However, with control over massive oil and gas reserves, Russia has re-emerged as a powerhouse. Now that nation is causing friction around its borders on issues from energy supplies to missile defense. New member states of the ... more Obama defends right to NATO expansion 
Washington (AFP) March 25, 2009US President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he wanted to "reset" US relations with Russia but argued NATO should still be open to countries which aspire to join the alliance. "My administration is seeking a reset of the relationship with Russia," Obama said after an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. But Obama said reinvigorated ties with Moscow must ... more US tourist ready for second trip to space 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 24, 2009US software pioneer Charles Simonyi should on Thursday become the first person in history to travel into space twice as a tourist, in trips costing a total of 60 million dollars. Simonyi will blast off for the International Space Station (ISS) at 1149 GMT from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome deep in the Kazakh steppe, along with a professional astronaut and cosmonaut. The software program ... more Space station crew set for pioneering launch 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 25, 2009The American and Russian pair set to take over the International Space Station (ISS) this week said Wednesday they felt privileged to be part of the doubling of its permanent crew. Speaking ahead of Thursday's launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Michael Barratt and Gennady Padalka, said their mission marked a new phase in the history of the ISS as the permanent crew is to be enlarged from ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2009 For some nations that are adversaries of the United States, the solution to the challenge of neutralizing U.S. intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems is near at hand. Positioning of advanced surface-to-air missiles along border regions can put all current unmanned ISR platforms at risk of being unable to survey crisis areas. Russia's actions in the former Soviet republic ... more Analysis: EU aims to boost energy security 
Berlin (UPI) Mar 20, 2009 In the wake of the worst energy crisis it battled in more than three decades, the European Union is trying to find ways to improve its energy security -- and new pipelines and LNG are the key words. The recent gas row between Russia and Ukraine, which halted gas supplies to Europe during a bitter cold spell in January, is the "worst energy crisis Europe has experienced since the oil ... more Nigeria to halt gas flaring by 2010-2011: minister 
Lagos (AFP) March 20, 2009Nigeria, the world's second-biggest gas flarer after Russia, aims to halt this environmentally unfriendly practice by 2010, or 2011 at the latest, the country's oil minister said Friday. "The absolute deadline ... would be certainly within the term of this administration," Odein Ajumogobia told AFP, referring to 2011. He added that 2010 was still the target date. Flaring, the practice of ... more US Senator: US, Russia must work through 'strained' ties 
Washington (AFP) March 19, 2009An influential US Senator warned Thursday that US-Russia relations will be "strained for some time" but urged speedy efforts to extend a nuclear cooperation accord that expires December 5. "The foundation of the US-Russian strategic relationship is at risk of collapsing in less than nine months," Senator Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in ... more
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