Russian call for Mars volunteers
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Scientists are selecting subjects to be locked in a self-sufficient capsule to test plans for a trip to Mars.
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The space agency said it plans to form lunar research teams around the country.
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Something strange is happening on Mars. It seems something or someone is cleaning the windows on one of two rovers probing the surface of the red planet.
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NASA is paying for the Mars Rovers to keep working. The twin rovers &quot;Spirit&quot; and &quot;Opportunity&quot; landed on the surface of Mars last January.
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STAR CITY, Russia - The new crew to the international space station will conduct experiments to research new AIDS vaccines and plant growth, and work on new space vehicles that will help future missions to the moon and Mars, crew members said Thursday.
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If they last, the space agency has funded another extension of their mission for the next six months. The latest funding came as NASA regained reliable contact with the rovers Spirit and Opportunity after
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Play nice, boffins As NASA greenlights its next Shuttle launch (8 June, for those keeping track), 14 international space agencies have agreed to cooperate on a rather more grandiose mission: bringing samples of the Martian surface back to Earth.â¦
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By Jeff Postelwait World Staff Writer  Sending a message to mission control, Cmdr. Garrett Pool asked for the countdown to commence as the five-member team of the Hawkings Explorer was ready to begin its mission to Mars. "We are ready for liftoff," Garrett said.
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Russia hopes to join NASA's moon exploration programme with technology and know how, a Russian space agency spokesman said yesterday.  Igor Panarin said Russia was conducting talks with NASA and voiced hope that a deal could be reached within months.
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KOROLYOV, Russia -- A U.S. astronaut and his Ru
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STAR CITY, Russia  -- The next crew for the international space station said Thursday it will conduct experiments to research new AIDS vaccines and plant growth and work on new space vehicles that will help future missions to the moon and Mars.    Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and U.S...
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A group of scientists and engineers propose a plan for the UK to join the International Space Station.
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A proposal for the UK to join the International Space Station (ISS) project is put forward by a group of scientists and engineers.
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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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NASA-funded astronomers are monitoring a Tunguska-sized asteroid that will pass within 30,000 miles of Mars on Jan. 30, 2008.  Based on data currently available, the space rock has a 1-in-75 chance of actually hitting Mars and blasting a crater more than half-a-mile wide.
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VIENNA/MOSCOW  - Russia said on Thursday it had protested to Austria over the arrest of a Russian space agency official on suspicion of espionage.
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We must all work together, says French prez Newly-wed French president Nicolas Sarkozy called yesterday for the world's space powers to work together in a global programme to explore Mars, New Scientist reports.â¦