Soyuz flight VS01 Lifts Off From French Guiana (with video) “Soyuz lifts off for the first time from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, carrying the first two Galileo In-Orbit Validation […]
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Today's Hearing On Soyuz Flights to the ISS
Hearing: The International Space Station: Lessons from the Soyuz Rocket Failure and Return to Flight – Statement of Lt. Gen Thomas P. Stafford – Statement of VADM Joseph W. Dyer […]
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Bullseye – But Sideways – in Kazakhstan
Space Station Trio Lands Safely In Kazakhstan “NASA’s Ron Garan, Expedition 28 commander Andrey Borisenko and flight engineer Alexander Samokutyaev, both of the Russian Federal Space Agency, landed their Soyuz […]
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Soyuz Launch Dates Announced
Russia Announces Next Manned Space Flights “Russia has announced the dates of its next manned space flights, after delaying previously scheduled missions following the crash of an unmanned Soyuz rocket […]
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Bolden's ISS Update
NASA Administrator’s Update on Space Station “There has been a lot in the news recently about the International Space Station (ISS) and our astronauts aboard this orbiting outpost, and I […]
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Confusion About Russian Space Policy
Russia may curtail permanently inhabited orbital stations program – Roscosmos deputy chief (Part 2), Interfax “The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) could phase out its program of building orbiting stations […]
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Sudden Self-doubt in Russia
Space Failures Raise Uneasy Questions, Moscow Times “The Progress failure triggered a wave of talk about how far the space program has fallen since legendary Soviet days. But Igor Lisov, […]
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Emptying The Space Station of Humans?
Space station could be at risk if crews are forced to leave temporarily, USA Today “NASA International Space Station Program Manager Mike Suffred says evacuation is a distinct possibility in […]
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Restoring Confidence in Soyuz
Space station could be abandoned in November, SpaceflightNow “I suspect that if we get close to Nov. 16 and we haven’t flown a Soyuz yet, and by then we will […]
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Russia Is Bored With U.S.-Subsidized Russian Human Space Flight
Manned space flights no longer priority for Russia, Reuters “Russia holds a monopoly on flights to and from the 16-nation station. Soyuz launches from its Baikonur cosmodrome are now the […]