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Russian Cosmonauts will not fly on American spacecraft over safety concerns. That’s according to Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the national space agency Roscosmos, who was speaking on Saturday. He added that an agreement with NASA to share seats on each other’s vessels hasn’t been reached yet.  According to Rogozin, NASA is …

Cosmonauts will not fly on American spacecraft over safety concerns, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia’s national space agency Roscosmos, said on Saturday. He added that the agreement with NASA to share seats on each other’s spacecraft hasn’t been reached yet.  According to Rogozin, NASA is the driving force behind …

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) rejected Blue Origin’s protest on Friday, stating that NASA was within its rights to select a single company – SpaceX – to build its lander. NASA signed a contract worth almost $3 billion with SpaceX in April, after earlier saying it would take bids from …

The module is being sold by Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of Roscosmos created in 1985. According to its website, the purchase would be ideal for any aerospace exposition. It is the first time the state has sold such an artefact, and no price has been publicly listed. “If this object attracts …

Elon Musk is unhappy that new American ships are more expensive than seats for astronauts on the Russian Soyuz. “It’s unfair,” responded the owner of the company SpaceX on the decision of NASA to pay Boeing $ 90 million. for the delivery of one astronaut to the International space station …

Japanese space probe “Hayabusa-2” held for the second successful mission for the collection of soil samples from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. We have previously reported that the unit was transmitted to Earth new images of small celestial bodies in the course of this operation. Although the first animated …

The mission is scheduled for April 2019. Representatives of NASA has published a video that shows animation test of a manned lunar-Martian ship called the Orion Ascent Abort-2. The mission is scheduled for April 2019. The video was published on YouTube-channel NASA Johnson. The experts also explained that the real …

Fire test RS-25 E2063 conducted in NASA. NASA engineers conducted a firing test of the new RS-25 engine E2063 for super-heavy carrier rocket Space Launch System. Rocket with such engines must ensure that the delivery of astronauts to the moon and possibly to Mars. The tests were at the Space …

Undocking the American space truck from the ISS took place today around noon.Us space truck Dragon left the ISS about six hours ago, splashed down in the Pacific ocean, according to the official Twitter account of the company SpaceX, which belongs to the apparatus. “Confirmed the successful splashdown of the …

In a short time in space can fly a new machine of American manufacture. Dream Chaser is a small space Shuttle and is designed to send cargo to the ISS. The first launch is planned for native Atlas 5 or Ariane 5 and docked to the station to be implemented …