Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
MOSCOW, July 23 (RIA Novosti) - The first Soyuz-ST carrier rocket will be launched from French Guiana in the first half of 2009, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday, citing the French...
Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Moscow (SPX) Jul 17, 2008 - The Russian Space Agency (RSA) has found a sponsor for constructing a spacecraft that will deliver tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011, as Agency's Deputy Chief Vitaly Davydov reported at the Farnborough Air Show on Tuesday.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The Space Shuttle Discovery docks with the International Space Station with views from NASA and the Russian Space Agency. Commentary provided by James Hartsfield.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Moscow - After a 20-minute delay, two Russian cosmonauts began a six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) to retrieve an explosive bolt from the Soyuz spacecraft docked at the ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Moscow - After a 20-minute delay, two Russian cosmonauts began a six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) to retrieve an explosive bolt from the Soyuz spacecraft docked at the ship. The mission by ISS Commander Sergei Volkov a...
Space.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Spacewalkers will inspect and remove an explosive bolt on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Live Science (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Spacewalkers will inspect and remove an explosive bolt on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Colony Worlds (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
After previously deciding that space tourism was not for them , Russia has decided to partner with an unknown (or rather secret) American investor to help it construct a Soyuz spacecraft dedicated towards taking humans beyond the sky--and "into the black." ( Space Travel ) The Russian space agency has sealed a deal with a private investor to build a Soyuz spacecraft specially for tourist hire and operational...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
The Russian space agency has sealed a deal with a private investor to build a Soyuz spacecraft specially for tourist hire to be operational in 2011."We have concluded an agreement with an investor to ...
Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 20, 2008 - Russia's Federal Space Agency has endorsed a proposal by the U.S. House of Representatives that a Russian radar station be used to detect dangerous asteroids, Roscosmos head said on Thursday.
Personal Spaceflight (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
To update my earlier post, I spoke briefly yesterday with Eric Anderson of Space Adventures to try and clarify any apparent contradictions between the company’s announcements and statements by the Russian space agency Roskosmos. Anderson said that Perminov’s statement that he had “no information about such plans” was reference to reports about Sergey Brin [...]
Luxist (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has announced he'll be join the ranks of the ultra-wealthy booking a space flight. Brin's date with the sky will be in 2011 when he will be one of the passengers aboard Russian Soyuz rocket. Brin has put down a $5 million deposit with Space Adventures, a company which has already sent five tourists into space for $20 to $35 million each. Brin is the first of six founding...
Rich Bowden - Freelance Journalist (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Not content with the all-conquering Google Earth, the search engine's co-founder and president of technology, Sergey Brin, has put down $5 million for a ticket to orbit the planet aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2011. Brin,34, is the latest of super wealthy individuals who have signed up for space travel and is the founding member of the Space Adventures Ltd newly established "Founding Explorer"...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
The company that sends wealthy tourists into space announced plans Wednesday for a private flight in 2011 to the international space station on a Russian-built Soyuz rocket and said Google co-founder Sergey Brin has paid $5 million to reserve a seat on a future flight.
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
The company that sends wealthy tourists into space announced plans Wednesday for a private flight in 2011 to the international space station on a Russian-built Soyuz rocket and said Google co-founder Sergey Brin has paid $5 million to reserve a seat on a future flight.
