The descent module with three astronauts from ISS Expedition 30/31 landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 12:15 Moscow time, sources from the Mission Control Centre outside Moscow report.
The capsule landed in the designated area, southeast of (...)
Awwal 01, 1432 H/ April 05, 2011, SPA -- A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, carrying two cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut to the International Space Station, blasted off early on Tuesday from Russia's launchpad in Kazakhstan, blazing a fiery trail across (...)
Russia will build a new $810 million space launch site as part of its efforts to defend its share of the increasingly competitive space launch market, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday, according to Reuters.
Like in Soviet times, Russia (...)
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft containing an international trio of astronauts who oversaw the final assembly stage of a $100 billion space station landed safely on Kazakhstan's steppe on Wednesday.
Russian Oleg Kotov, NASA's Timothy Creamer and Japan's (...)
Russia expects to
extend the life of the International Space Station beyond 2015,
although Moscow must bear the brunt of flights after the United
States retires its shuttles, reuters quoted officials as saying on Sunday.
Space agency heads will (...)
The Russian cosmonauts of the ISS Expedition 17 crew have successfully carried out the main task during the unscheduled six-hour spacewalk for the Russian programme, Itar-Tass reported.
Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko returned into the station and (...)
A Soyuz space capsule carrying two Russians, an American and an out-of-this-world dinner headed for a docking with the international space station on Monday.
The capsule is to dock with the ISS at 1912GMT, about 50 hours after it took off from (...)