No more free rides for US astronauts on Russian spacecraft ...
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Russia plans to stop giving American astronauts free rides on its spacecraft to the international space station beginning in 2006, the head of Russia&#39;s space agency said.
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KOROLYOV, Russia -- The Soyuz spacecraft closed in on the international space station at dangerously high speed yesterday, forcing the US-Russian crew to put on the brakes, abandon autopilot, and manually dock the Soviet-era capsule in an unplanned and tricky maneuver.
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Russia plans to stop giving American astronauts free rides on its spacecraft to the international space station beginning in 2006, the head of Russia's space agency said.
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Russia says it will start charging US astronauts for lifts to the International Space Station from 2006.
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Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), Agence France Presse reported on Friday citing Vyacheslav Davydenko, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency.
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Russia's cash-strapped space agency said on Tuesday it would stop giving U.S. astronauts free rides into orbit in the future.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The United States should keep flying the space shuttles past their 2010 retirement date to avoid depending on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, a U.S. congressman said on Monday.
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The Russian computers that help keep the space station in orbit were out of commission for a second day.
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It's not Superman. It's Russian satellites.
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MOSCOW - Echoing what NASA (news - web sites) officials said a day earlier, a Russian space official on Friday said the two-man crew on the international space station could be forced to return to Earth if a planned resupply flight cannot reach them with
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A Russian rocket carrying a US-Russian space crew on a two-day flight to the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Thursday.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan -- A Russian-US crew returned safely to Earth from the international space station, their Soyuz space capsule streaking through the atmosphere and landing on target in the steppes of Kazakhstan early Sunday.
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US astronauts travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Russian space shuttles will no longer be able to benefit from free travel, the Russian space agency announced today.
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By Traci Watson  The troubled Russian computers on the International Space Station passed a last acid test Monday, allowing space shuttle Atlantis to leave the station today.    Atlantis' crew ducked into the shuttle and closed the hatch Monday just after 7 p.m.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are ''not free" for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said yesterday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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KOROLYOV, Russia -- A U.S. astronaut and his Ru
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Earlier this year, NASA administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe nixed a final shuttle service mission to Hubble scheduled for mid-2006, saying it posed too much of a risk to the lives of astronauts.