Strains Show in US-Russian Space Partnership
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Since the loss of the Columbia space shuttle, Russia has ferried all crews and cargoes on its smaller space craft. Costing around $22 million each to construct and launch, unmanned Progress freighters carry supplies.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan  - A Russian rocket carrying  a U.S.-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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MOSCOW. Dec 7 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has forwarded to NASA its suggestions regarding cooperation as part of the U.S. moon exploration program, Roscosmos spokesman Igor Panarin told Interfax-AVN on Thursday. "As far as the U.S.
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forgotten_my_nick writes &quot;According to BBC News, Russia has announced that it will no longer ferry US astronauts to space for free (It has been doing so for two years).
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Russian and U.S. space scientists reported multiple computer problems late Wednesday and early Thursday aboard the International Space Station.  Russian controllers in Moscow reported navigation computers in the Russian section of the space station malfunctioned.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER   Associated Press writer  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA and its Russian counterpart worked on two minor problems Monday before starting the countdown clock for Thursday night's launch of space shuttle Discovery on a mission to rewire the international space station.
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The US and European space agencies signal their desire to co-operate on the biggest missions.
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MOSCOW. Sept 5 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Space Agency spokesman Igor Panarin met with U.S. National Aerospace Administration spokesman Rob Navias and NASA television producer Stephanie Stoll of the Johnson Space Center in Houston in Moscow on Tuesday.
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An American and a Russian, both space veterans, have been selected as the next replacement crew for the international space station, a Russian agency spokesman said Tuesday.
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Russia and the European Space Agency (Esa) sign an agreement to allow closer co-operation.
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Science News, Kazakhstan - A Russian-US crew blasted off bound for the International Space Station where they will spend six months conducting experiments including work on the search for an AIDS vaccine.
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MOSCOW. June 14 (Interfax-AVN) - Experts are trying to fix Russian mainframe computers and terminals on board the International Space Station, a source told Interfax-AVN.
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Russia's space program is recovering from its post-Soviet financial meltdown, but government spending is still just a fraction of what is needed to revive the program to its former glory, top Russian space experts said Monday.    Some critics have assailed the Kremlin for allowing Russia to lose its edge in space exploration - an edge exemplified by the launch exactly 47 years ago of Sputnik, the world's first satellite...
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An unmanned Russian spaceship on a vital supply mission docked with the International Space Station last night to deliver a cargo of food for the two-member US-Russian crew, who had been forced to ration their dwindling supplies.
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American NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, bottom, Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, center, and Russian Yuri Shargin, top, wave just before their launch at the cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakstan, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004.
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Children living near  a Russian space launch station suffer higher rates of disease, a journal reports.
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BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - A Russian-US crew lifted off on a two-day journey to the international space station, where their first priority will be to fix a broken generator.