Russia Seeks Aid for Space Program
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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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Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025 and wants to build a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian space agency Roskosmos said Friday.
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An unmanned Russian spaceship on a vital supply mission approached the international space station, preparing to dock Saturday with its cargo of food for the two-member U.S.-Russian crew, who have been forced to ration their dwindling supplies.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is maneuvering to take the nuclear waste the rest of the world shuns, hoping for a financial bonanza &amp;#151; and President Bush, in a reversal of U.S. policy, is offering to help.
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colonist writes &quot;Russian space officials unveiled a full-scale model of the Kliper spaceship. If funding is provided, Kliper will replace the Soyuz space capsule as Russia&#39;s human space vehicle.
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It's not Superman. It's Russian satellites.
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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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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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A proposal for the UK to join the International Space Station project is put forward by a group of scientists and engineers.
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MOSCOW Come 2006, Russia says it will no longer give US astronauts free lifts to the international space station. Russia has been the only link to the station since the US suspended its shuttle program after &quot;Columbia&quot; burned up on re-entry in 2003.
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It's a mission to Mars &#151; without leaving Moscow. Russian scientists have finished fashioning a crucial section of a mock spacecraft that will simulate a voyage to the Red Planet, an official at the Moscow institute leading the project said Wednesday.
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Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station were trying on Saturday to kick-start components of a critical computer system that were still down, but most parts were up and running, raising hopes they would not crash again.
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The head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos said on Friday he hoped a new spacecraft launch site would be built in the Russian far east by 2020 to supplement the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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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 sends military satellite into space    MOSCOW. Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Russia put a military satellite into orbit on Thursday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian news agencies reported.
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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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Russia said on Friday &quot;certain states&quot;  were hampering efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass  destruction and other armaments, pointing a finger at the  United States over space-based weapons.