Russia to charge for space trips
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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'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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By Associated Press  KOROLYOV, Russia -- The space capsule carrying a new U.S.- Russian crew and the first paying female space tourist docked smoothly Wednesday at the international space station.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan NASA&#39;s top administrator says the agency wants to keep working with the Russians, with the goal of sending missions to Mars.
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Russia pledged to help Brazil become a commercial space power as the two countries laid foundations for a strategic partnership in a wide range of business and economic sectors.
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MOSCOW - Russia&#39;s Federal Space Agency and NASA (news - web sites) have approved the crew of the next mission to the international space station, a Russian agency spokesman said Tuesday.
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South Korea will pick its first two astronauts next year for a space trip by 2007, the science ministry said Sunday, after Russia agreed to help the country's space program.
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When it comes to complaining about poor exchange rates for the U.S. dollar, American tourists traveling to Europe have nothing on tourists headed into space. The cost of flying to the international space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spaceship has increased from $25 million earlier this year to $30 million. Trips planned in 2008 and 2009 will cost $40 million.
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KOROLYOV, Russia -- A U.S. astronaut and his Ru
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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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Rivals for lunar conquest four decades ago, Russia hopes to join the U.S. moon exploration program with technology and know-how, a Russian space agency spokesman said Thursday.
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Russia will cooperate closely with China on moon exploration, and the two nations could sign space cooperation agreements by the year's end, the Russian space chief said Monday.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan A US-Russian space crew is preparing to leave the International Space Station and return to Earth, ending a six-month mission.
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It's not Superman. It's Russian satellites.
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Russia is prepared to take part in the United States' Moon exploration programme &quot;on an equal footing&quot;, Russian space agency Roskosmos has said.
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MOSCOW -- Russia&#39;s Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov said Friday that a prominent Russian businessman-turned-politician is training to fly to space as a tourist in 2009 and underscored the need to cut his country&#39;s dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for manned space exploration.
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Russia launched Thursday a satellite designed to test the feasibility of the world&#39;s first space hotel, the brainchild of a Las Vegas hotel tycoon who hopes to begin construction in 2011, officials said.