Soyuz News

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy along with Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov just arrived at the International Space Station in world-record time - just six hours, compared to the previous two-day trip.

After a delay of 1 day due to bad weather, a Soyuz capsule has now safely landed in northeast Kazakhstan, bringing home 2 Russian cosmonauts and 1 American astronaut from their 5 month stint on the ISS. The next trip is planned to arrive in record time.

The Russian Soyuz TMA07 spaceship took off on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This time the craft is carrying a musical crew of three astronauts to the ISS.

A Soyuz-FG booster vehicle, with a transfer orbit stage Fregat, was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan yesterday.

With a truly international team on board, the Soyuz spacecraft has taken off this morning, from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazahkstan.

Kourou - The European Union has launched its own global navigational satellites, which now joins the American GPS, and the Russian GLONASS already in orbit.

Amateur observers studying NASA images from STEREO see Comet Elenin split into two parts (featured video). Leonid Elenin is said to have confirmed Comet's disintegration.

Arkalyk - A Russian cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts came safely back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) in a Soyuz capsule Friday, Russian Mission Control said.

Billionaire Guy Laliberte, founder of the world-famous Cirque de Soleil, became Canada's first space tourist, and the world's first space clown, when he blasted off this morning for the orbiting International Space Station aboard the Russian SOYUZ TMA-16.

VIENNA (dpa) - The government and opposition are rapidly heading for a showdown on the future of Austria's "perpetual neutrality".Stymied by an opposition blocking minority, the government cannot scrap neutrality and lead the country straight into NATO...