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![]() Houston TX (SPX) Jun 18, 2010 Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin docked with the International Space Station at 6:21 p.m. EDT Thursday. The trio began the journey to their new home when they launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft at 5:35 p.m. Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From inside the station, Expedition 24 Commander Alexander Skvortsov and Flight Engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko monitored the approach of the Russian spacecraft as ... read more |
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Proton-M With Arabsat-5 telecoms Satellite Blasts Off From Baikonur![]() Russia's Proton-M launch vehicle powered by the Breeze-M upper stage blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakstan on Friday to orbit the Arabsat-5 telecommunications satellite. "The launch went off in normal mode, as scheduled," a spokesman for the Federal Space Agency said. The satellite is scheduled to separate approximately 9 hours and 13 minutes after liftoff. Th ... more Russia Needs Long-Term Space Strategy To Remain Cosmic Superpower ![]() Russia needs a long-term space strategy, otherwise it may lose its leadership in the space exploration sphere, Russian cosmonaut and former politician Yury Baturin has said. "Unfortunately, Russia has no long-term space strategy. For some 15 or maybe 20 more years Russia will remain a space superpower, but after this period, Russia will become a second-league space power if a long-term spa ... more Russia To Test Launch New Spacecraft From Baikonur In 2015 ![]() Russia will test launch a new spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2015, the head of the manned space program at Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. "Competition for building new manned spacecraft is growing so we must ensure we hold the first test launch in 2015," Alexei Krasnov said. The new-generation six-seated spacecraft is currently being d ... more |
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![]() Kaliningrad, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 02, 2010 The Russian Baltic Fleet's amphibious assault landing ship RFS Kaliningrad set out on Monday for the Baltic and North seas, where it will hold military training, a spokesman for the Baltic Fleet said. "The amphibious assault landing ship Kaliningrad has departed from [the Baltic Sea port of] Baltiisk. The ship set sail for the Baltic and North seas, where it will carry out a range of training military tasks, including ship-damage control and air defense training," the spokesman said. He said ... read more |
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