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Russia To Review Its Space Shuttle ProjectMoscow, Russia (XNA) Jun 28, 2010 Russia will return to its program of building the space shuttles and super-heavy carrier rockets after 2018, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday. New carrier rockets will have a workload over 24 tons, director of Moscow's Central Machine-building Institute, Gennady Raikunov, said during the Strong Russia business conference. According to Raikunov, the tests of the rocket will start in 2015 and its commercial exploitation will commence in 2018. Russian space engineers also are w ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2010The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new Expedition 24 flight engineers bound for the International Space Station lifted off at 5:35 p.m. EDT Tuesday. As the launch of the Soyuz TMA-19 lit up the pre-dawn skies around the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin began the two-day journey to catch up w ... more 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 15, 2010The International Space Station's Expedition 24 crew began the week Monday with a variety of science experiments. Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson was scheduled to reinstall an old pump into the U.S. segment's oxygen generation system, in an effort to coax it back into action to support the increase of the crew to six people which will begin Thursday. Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 10, 2010South Korea postponed Wednesday's planned launch of its KSLV-1 rocket due to technical problems, Russia's Khrunichev Space Center's spokesman said. "There will not be a launch today," the spokesman said. The KSLV-1 (The First Korean Space Launch Vehicle), built in cooperation with Russia, was expected to blast off at noon Moscow time [8:00 GMT]. The Korean Ministry of Education, Science an ... more |
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Neglecting The Navy Could Threaten Russia's SovereigntyMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 09, 2010 Russia plans to spend 13 trillion rubles ($417 billion) on its rearmament program through 2020, Gen. Oleg Frolov, acting chief of armaments at the Defense Ministry, reported to the State Duma on June 3. He said this should be enough for rearming the strategic nuclear forces, the Air Force and the Air Defense Force, but the Army and the Navy will have to make do with available weapons and can expect only minor supplies of new armaments. To fully finance all requirements of the armed forces, R ... read more |
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