US to Pay to go to ISS
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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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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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Sir Richard Branson announces that he has signed an agreement to develop the world&#39;s first privately funded space travel. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA.
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By The Associated Press  POWAY -- A man who gave up a free space ride because he couldn't afford the taxes on the contest prize may be going to the cosmos after all.
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MOSCOW -- The Moscow Arbitration Court ruled yesterday embattled oil giant Yukos must pay $1.34 billion US in fines and penalties as part of a $4.
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Anousheh Ansari, an American of Iranian origin, is packing her bags for a flight on Monday that will take her and two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Agreement will allow the public to track the space shuttles and space station and more.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Feb. 7 -- After two months of delay, the space shuttle Atlantis blasted into orbit Thursday with Europe's gift to the international space station, a $2 billion science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail.
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WASHINGTON &mdash; NASA has narrowed the field of private space companies vying for $175 million in public funds the U.S. space agency expects to award in early February for demonstration flights to the International Space Station, according to industry sources closely following the competition.
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US astronauts travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Russian space shuttles will no longer be able to benefit from free travel, the Russian space agency announced today.
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A pair of veteran NASA spacewalkers is set to return to the International Space Station (ISS) this week aboard the shuttle Atlantis to help boost the orbital laboratory&#39;s power supply.
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Blog: Space Adventures says that the cost of a flight to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz rocket will go up as much as $20 million in the coming years because of inflation.
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The flight of the world's first female space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) will be put off by four days because of delays in launching the US space shuttle, the Russian space agency Roskosmos has said.
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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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Two US astronauts are set to attach a two-tonne metal segment to the International Space Station during the first of three spacewalks scheduled in the Discovery shuttle mission.
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The International Space Station (ISS) crew will stay in orbit for two days longer than planned, Itar-Tass told today. The launching of the Soyuz TMA-5 spaceship has been postponed from October 9 to October 11 due to problems with the docking system.
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The crew of the International Space Station is expecting a visitor on Christmas Day, but it wonât be Santa Claus. Instead, it will be the cargo ship, the ISS Progress 16, carrying 2.5 tons of goodies and supplies to the Space Station.