Russian Space

The head of russia s space program said today that nasa s plans to send people back to the moon are too us centric for russia to participate.
Russian space. He has been critical of the program in the. Union is a series of spacecraft designed for the soviet space program by the korolev design bureau now rkk energia in the 1960s that remains in service today having made more than 140 flights. Today space exploration efforts include more than 70 countries with research institutes and space agencies. Russian us astronauts launch to international space station a trio of space travelers has launched successfully to the international space station for the first time using a fast track maneuver.
For the first time in two decades soyuz spacecraft shared the processing room with a 20 ton space station module. October 14 08 45 moscow time. The roscosmos state corporation for space activities note 1 commonly known as roscosmos russian. Aboard the station they were welcomed by the station s nasa commander chris cassidy and roscosmos cosmonauts anatoly ivanishin and ivan vagner who have been aboard the complex since april.
Local time a soyuz rocket blasted off from baikonur cosmodrome russia s sprawling and remote space launch facility in kazakhstan to the international space station. However only a few of them have launch capability the three largest being nasa in the united states roscosmos in the russian federation and the european space agency. Kazakhstan created kazcosmos in the 21st century russia created an aerospace agency called rosaviakosmos which is now a space agency called roscosmos and ukraine created the national space agency of ukraine nsau. The soyuz succeeded the voskhod spacecraft and was originally built as part of the soviet crewed lunar programs.
A trio of space travelers launched successfully to the international space station for the first time using a fast track maneuver to reach the orbiting outpost in just three hours nasa s kate rubins along with sergey ryzhikov and sergey kud sverchkov of the russian space.