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24.03.2009, 12:24
Billionaire Charles Simonyi is heading for the stars again on Thursday to become the first tourist to go into orbit twice – after his first trip to space two years ago.
06.03.2009, 06:11
The names of some of the crew for the 19th International Space Station mission have been announced.
24.07.2009, 10:06
A group of Russian schoolchildren are having a summer vacation with a difference at the “space camp” of Star City, the country’s cosmonaut training centre, which hopes to inspire the youths to become future explorers.
13.07.2010, 22:29
An 11-year-old wheelchair-bound Russian girl wrote a letter to the cosmonauts on the ISS saying she dreams of finding herself in zero gravity because then she wouldn’t need a wheelchair.
13.06.2009, 13:51
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The chances of being hit by a passing meteorite are tremendously small, but that’s exactly what has happened to a German schoolboy. The pea-sized space-traveling object hit the boy’s hand leaving a scar.
29.06.2009, 10:52
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Mysterious pictograms consisting of several circles have appeared on a wheat field in Southern Russia’s Krasnodar region. Was it someone’s joke or did aliens visit us?
05.03.2009, 16:22
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The Russian military are developing anti-satellite weapons, according to deputy defence minister, Vladimir Popovkin.
21.07.2009, 22:51
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Russia's prominent cosmonaut, first man to walk in space, Aleksey Leonov strongly rejects claims that Americans made up their moon mission and shares with RT his memories of Neil Armstrong walking on the lunar surface.
26.01.2010, 15:40
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Leading Russian spacecraft producer Energia has presented a concept of a universal military satellite with offensive capabilities.
15.05.2009, 17:20
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Moscow has filed a formal complaint to Helsinki after Finland's consulate general in St. Petersburg helped a Finnish citizen take his son out of Russia against both the will of his Russian mother and the law.
Published: 25 March, 2009, 10:47
On Thursday, the Soyuz spacecraft will be launched from the Baikunur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Flight engineer Mike Barratt will celebrate his 50th birthday onboard the International Space Station.
