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On April 12, 1961, Yury Gagarin made the first space flight on the Vostok spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Space Center. RIA Novosti presents a special project dedicated to the 50th anniversary of man’s first journey into outer space.
Russia and Sweden agreed on Wednesday to improve cooperation in the space industry, including their intention to launch Swedish satellites using Russian carrier rockets.
Chinese space officials have confirmed plans to build a 60-ton space station by 2020 and develop a space freighter for hauling supplies to the station, the China Daily newspaper said on Tuesday.
Russia will create a scientific center in Barentsburg in the Svalbard Archipelago, polar explorer parliament member Artur Chilingarov said on Tuesday.
Russia's Progress M-09M cargo spacecraft will be sunk in the remote area in southern Pacific Ocean later on Tuesday after it undocked from the International Space Station on April 22, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will on Monday preside over a meeting of the economic modernization commission and the board of trustees of the Skolkovo high-tech hub.1
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has set a new world record for beam intensity by colliding its proton beams with the highest luminosity ever achieved by similar devices.
By colliding particles in front of immensely powerful detectors,
scientists hope to detect the Higgs boson, nicknamed the "God
particle," which was hypothesized in the 1960s to explain how particles
acquire mass. Discovering the particle could explain how matter
appeared in the split-second after the Big Bang. The international LHC project has involved more than 2,000
physicists from hundreds of universities and laboratories in 34
countries since 1984. Over 700 Russian physicists from 12 research
institutes have taken part.
Russia will not permit the first U.S. commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) unless its safety is fully tested, a high-ranking Russian space official said on Friday.2
Russia will not permit the first U.S. commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) unless its safety is fully tested, a high-ranking official with Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Friday.
Russia's Progress M-09M cargo spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday to be buried in the Pacific after conducting a five-day scientific mission, a Mission Control spokesman said.
Pope Benedict XVI will talk with International Space Station (ISS) astronauts on May 4 during the space shuttle Endeavour's final mission to the orbiter.
Russia needs to be strong and avoid experiments with "unjustified liberalism" in order to safeguard its sovereignty and prevent outsiders from dictating the country's development, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.2
The Indian space agency ISRO on Wednesday successfully launched three satellites, including Resourcesat-2, an advanced remote sensing satellite to study natural resources.
Following a daylong flight readiness review on Tuesday the U.S. space agency has set April 29 as the date for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station (ISS).
Ukrainian capital Kiev will host on Wednesday an international scientific conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of tragic events at the country's Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Kazakhstan is ready to consider Russia's proposal of converting the Baikonur Space Center into a joint-stock company with Russia as a major shareholder, Kazakh chief Talgat Musabayev said on Tuesday.1
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday began a 54-hour countdown for the launch of three satellites, an ISRO press secretary said.
Russian cosmonaut Andrei Borisenko, a flight engineer of the 27th International Space Station (ISS) expedition, will celebrate his 47th birthday on board of the station on Sunday, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control center said.