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Soyuz 100 Times More Reliable Than ShuttleMoscow, Russia (Pravda) Feb 08, 2010 Richard Garriott, a videogame developer, who once boarded Russia's Soyuz rocket for a space flight said that the Russian-made ship was much more reliable than its foreign analogues. Garriott, whose father is a former NASA astronaut, paid $30 million for a flight to the iInternational Space station. He said in a televised conference that Soyuz was 100 times more a reliable spacecraft than USA's shuttles. On October 24, 2008, Russian cosmonauts, ISS Crew 17 Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, sp ... read more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2010Russian cosmonauts receive up to $150,000 for a mission on board the International Space Station (ISS), a senior space official said Thursday. "For six months of work on the ISS, a Russian cosmonaut gets an equivalent of $130,000-150,000 in Russian currency," Vladimir Solovyev said, head of the Russian segment of the ISS. Solovyev admitted that the cosmonauts' work in orbit is diffic ... more  
Moscow, China (RIA Novosti) Jan 19, 2010Russia will launch two international satellites as well as a freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) next month from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Federal Space Agency said Monday. A Roscosmos spokesman said Intelsat 16, CryoSat 2, and Progress M04M would be launched with three different carrier rockets. The Progress M04M is due for liftoff with a Soyuz-U ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 18, 2010The U.S. media suspects China and India of developing anti-satellite weapons. An article to this effect has been published the New Scientist magazine. Until recently, only the Soviet Union, its legal successor Russia and the United States were capable of developing anti-satellite weapons. U.S. analysts now think that China and India are acquiring similar capabilities. To what extent are such fears justified? ... more |
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India's First Manned Space Flight In 2013Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 13, 2010 India would launch its first manned space flights by sending two astronauts into orbit in a Russian spaceship in 2013, according to reports. For this, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is to finance the acquisition of a Soyuz spaceship and train its astronauts by a Russian commander. The Russian cosmonaut would lead the two-member crew on an independent space flight lasting several days, Voice of Russia radio reported. Quoting deputy chief of Russian space agency ... read more |
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