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Russia Shortlists 11 For 520-Day Simulation Of Mars MissionMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 10, 2010 Russia's Institute of Medical and Biological Problems announced on Thursday the names of 11 volunteers on the shortlist to take part in a 520-day simulation of an expedition to Mars, a spokesman said. The 11 candidates will complete basic spaceflight training and in spring six of them will be chosen to take part in the experiment, which will simulate all aspects of a journey to the Red Planet, with a 250-day outward trip, a 30-day stay on its surface, and a 240-day return flight. The basic r ... read more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 15, 2010On February 12, 1955, the first military construction units arrived at Tyura-Tam railroad siding (station) to launch the construction of a new missile test range - Scientific-Research Test Range No. 5 of the Soviet Defense Ministry (NIIP-5), currently known as the Baikonur Space Center. The need for a new test range became evident after the Soviet Union began to develop its own intercontin ... more  
Moscow,(RIA Novosti) Feb 12, 2010On February 10 fifteen years ago, the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) met in Almaty, then capital of Kazakhstan (Central Asia), to sign an agreement to create a joint air defense system. In February 2010, they held a jubilee meeting of the Committee on Air Defense at the CIS Council of Defense Ministers. The CIS leaders established the joint air defense system to pr ... more  
Chennai, India (PTI) Feb 11, 2010Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K. Radhakrishnan has said the flight- testing of the indigenous cryogenic stage of the GSLV D3 would be conducted in April. Talking to reporters after receiving the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) at the fifth convocation of SRM University here, Radhakrishnan said: The vehicle would carry GAST-4, a communication satellite. Though we had several ... more |
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Progress Docks With ISSMoscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 08, 2010 Approach to the space station, its fly-around, stationkeeping and docking were performed in automatic mode. The initial contact with the docking port on the instrumentation and propulsion compartment of the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS Russian Segment (RS) occurred at 07:26 Moscow Time. The crew of Expedition 22 to ISS working on-board the space station monitored the process of rendezvous and docking. All the dynamic operations were performed by mission control specialists under the supervisio ... read more |
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