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Dramatic Soyuz Docking Averts Potential Station Abandonment

November 16, 2011

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying the first crew of humans to fly to space in the post Space Shuttle Era has successfully docked at the International Space Station early this morning, Nov. 16 at 12:24 a.m. EST, averting the potential of [...]

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Soyuz Launches to Station amid Swirling Snowy Spectacular

November 14, 2011

The future survival and fate of the International Space Station was on the line and is now firmly back on track following today’s (Nov. 13) successful, high stakes liftoff of a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a three man crew of two Russians and one American bound for the orbiting research platform, amidst the backdrop of [...]

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Soyuz Poised for High Stakes November 13 Blastoff – Space Stations Fate Hinges on Success

November 13, 2011

The stakes could not be higher for the Russian Soyuz rocket now poised at the launch pad at Baikonur in Kazakhstan and which will loft the next trio of space flyers to the International Space Station on Sunday, Nov. 13. This is the first flight of a manned Soyuz rocket since the Space Shuttle was [...]

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Russians Race against Time to Save Ambitious Phobos-Grunt Mars Probe from Earthly Demise

November 10, 2011

Teams of Russian engineers are in a race against time to save the ambitious and unprecedented Phobos-Grunt sample return mission from crashing back to Earth following the post launch failure of the upper stage rocket firings essential to propel the probe onward to destination Mars and scooping up dirt and dust from the tiny moon [...]

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Russian Mars Moon Sample Probe Poised to Soar atop Upgraded Rocket – Video

November 8, 2011

After an absence of almost two decades, Russia is at last on the cusp of resuming an ambitious agenda of interplanetary science missions on Tuesday Nov. 8 3:16 p.m. EST (Nov. 9, 00:16 a.m. Moscow Time) by taking aim at Mars and scooping up the first ever soil and rocks gathered from the mysterious moon [...]

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