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Glonass satellites: wide use by 2012
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.jpg) The Russian government has initiated the revision of the Glonass satellite program. According to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the government is working on a draft of the program up to the year 2020.
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First digital manned Soyuz
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.jpg) The TMA-01M Soyuz craft is the first in the new digital series. In the words of Nikolai Bryukhanov, deputy general designer of the Energia Corporation, the plan in devising the new series of spaceships was to narrow the technology gap.
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Space militarism or cooperation
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.jpg) However, a recent cooling of U.S-Russia relationships has brought worry to some that come 2010 when the Space Shuttle fleet is forced into retirement, the U.S. will be completely reliant upon Russia for all manned spaceflight and ISS resupplying missions. The U.S. and Russia have had a long history of cooperation.
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Towards new heights: NASA’s work with Russia
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.jpg) NASA and Russia have a long history of extensive and diverse cooperation, starting with space biology and medicine, geodesy, and geodynamics in the 1960s. In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Civil Space Agreement, which expanded this cooperation into other areas.
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Space exploration: a lifelong job
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.jpg) Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich is a living legend. He has been named two times the Hero of the Soviet Union. Many Russians made him an idol 40 years ago at the start of the space era, when he made his first flight around the Earth. “Flying to outer space,” Pavel Popovich says, “is just like falling in love for the first time.
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source: RIA novosti
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