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Future Cosmonauts Start Training
Baikonur (UPI) Aug 25, 2004 Five trainee cosmonauts have arrived for training at the Baikonur cosmodrome operated by Russia, the Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency said Wednesday. The group arrived at Baikonur Tuesday and continue their training there and also participate in preparations for the launch of a U.S. AMS-15 telecommunications satellite next month, Interfax-Kazakhstan said. Three future Russian cosmonauts Sergei Zhukov, Mark Serov and Sergei Ryazansky and two future Kazakh cosmonauts, Mukhtar Aimakhanov and Aidyn Aimbetov, are undergoing training now, Baikonur Federal Space Center officials told Interfax. Two more Russian trainee cosmonauts Yevgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Artemyev are scheduled to join the group later, the officials said. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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