Russia Wants to Join NASA Moon Program
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MOSCOW - Rivals for lunar conquest four decades ago, Russia hopes to join the U.S.
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Russia, which provides the only link to the International Space Station from Earth, named on Saturday three new crew members to replace the current two-man crew in October, Interfax news agency reported.
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The United States  begins its next step in human space flight with the  announcement by NASA on Thursday of a contractor to design and  build spaceships to fly to the moon.
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Russia plans to stop giving US astronauts free rides on its spacecraft to the international space station beginning in 2006, the head of Russia&#39;s space agency said on Tuesday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to his South Korean counterpart, Roh Moo-hyun, that Russia would help train the first South Korean astronaut for a space flight, local media reported Tuesday.
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BERLIN, Nov. 16 -- A small spacecraft has made it into lunar orbit, marking a key milestone in Europe&#39;s first successful mission to the moon and setting the stage for the craft to begin studying the lunar
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The US and European space agencies signal their desire to co-operate on the biggest missions.
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Google and the X Prize Foundation are sponsoring a space race to the moon, with $30 million in prizes being offered to spur interest.
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NASA unveiled plans today to set up a small and ultimately self-sustaining settlement of astronauts on the South Pole of the moon sometime around 2020, the first step in an ambitious plan to resume manned exploration of the solar system.
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American astronaut Mike Fincke, front , and Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Shargin, third, get off a plane at the Chkalovsky airport, just outside Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, while heading to Moscow&#39;s Star City, the home-base of Russia&#39;s space program.
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China and 15 other countries joined NASA officials this week to consider how they might cooperate with US plans for human exploration of the moon and Mars.
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A Russian-U.S. crew returned to Earth from the international space station in a pinpoint landing on the Kazakhstan steppe, and NASA's chief said the United States wanted to continue the joint relationship on future missions to Mars.
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NASA officials have confirmed Russian reports about an âouter-space swapâ worth an estimated $60 million or more. If approved by the US government, the deal could put off a looming
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BOULDER, Colo. -- NASA announced Wednesday the suite of U.S. science investigators for its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) project, as well as a Russian scientist.
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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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MOSCOW  -- A new Russian-US team for the International Space Station (ISS) will take off from the Baikonur space station in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan in October, Russian space officials said.       The three-person team, due to be approved on Thursday, will leave for the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft, Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roskosmos said on its website...
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NASA unveiled plans yesterday to set up a small and ultimately self-sustaining settlement of astronauts at the south pole of the moon sometime around 2020 -- the first step in an ambitious plan to resume manned exploration of the solar system.