NASA At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 35/36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy (right), Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov (center) and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin clasp hands for photographers prior to the start of qualification simulation runs in a Soyuz spacecraft mock-up on March 5, 2013. By Clara MoskowitzSpace.com Three men are poised to make history today when they blast off on a rocket ride Thursdaythat will reach the International Space faster than any astronauts to fly there before. NASA astronautChris Cassidyand Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov are due to arrive at the orbiting laboratory just six hours after they launch at 4:43 p.m Continue reading
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Russia Launches Robotic Supply Ship to Space Station
A Russian Soyuz rocket launched an unmanned cargo freighter to the International Space Station Monday (Feb. 11) to deliver nearly 3 tons of fresh food, water and equipment to the six men living on the orbiting outpost. The robotic Progress 50 resupply ship and its Soyuz rocket lifted off at 9:41 a.m Continue reading
Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan – Video
Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan 19 November 2012 Russia's Yuri Malenchenko, Sunita Williams of the US and Akihiko Hoshide of Japan touched down as scheduled just before 0200 GMT, the Russian Space Flight Control Centre announced. Continue reading
Voina Group "Decembrists Commemoration" – Video
Voina Group “Decembrists Commemoration” On September 7, 2008, on Moscow City Day, the Voina group came to the city's biggest supermarket, where in the department of “Light” organized an execution by hanging of 3 illegal Central Asian migrant workers and 2 homosexuals, one of whom was a Jew. The lynching was a special gift to the Russian corrupted authorities, who incite homophobia, misanthropy and anti-Semitism Continue reading
Soyuz rocket blasts off for space station
A Russian Soyuz craft has launched into the morning skies over Kazakhstan, carrying three astronauts on their way to the International Space Station (ISS), where they will quickly start preparing for a frenzy of incoming traffic. NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko and Japan’s Akihito Hoshide are set to travel for two days before joining three colleagues already at the permanent space outpost. Families and colleagues watched the launch on Sunday from an observation platform in the Russian-leased cosmodrome in the dry southern steppes of this sprawling Central Asian nation. Continue reading
Russian rocket blasts off on mission to space station- Fla. space workers struggle a year after last shuttle
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan A Russian Soyuz craft launched into the morning skies over Kazakhstan on Sunday, carrying three astronauts on their way to the international space station, where they will quickly start preparing for a frenzy of incoming traffic. NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko and Japan’s Akihito Hoshide are set to travel two days before reaching their three colleagues already at the permanent space outpost. Continue reading
Nobelist Speaks Out on Genetic Modification, Synthetic Biology, Stem Cell Research
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Sir Richard Roberts, the eminent British biologist and Nobel Prize laureate, said today European opposition to genetically modified organisms is political rather than scientific in nature. He also said “personal medicine” based on human genome research holds large-scale promise to improve the health of the world’s people on an individualized basis. Continue reading