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Contents Piloted Flights ISS Main Expedition Seven Mission Chronicle: July 2003 Forty Years, Quite A Term Three Days Of Deserved Rest Hurricane Approached And Passed By In Solar Orbit Does Heart Beat In Weightlessness? Nocturne With Didgeridoo Red Flag With Golden Stars-2: Results of Shenzhou-4 Experiment; First Flight of A Chinese Cosmonaut Planned For October Does Alternative Exist For Tile Thermal Protection? 'Simple' vs. Advanced OSP: Debates Flare Up Robots To Help Astronauts Talgat Musabayev Lefts Cosmonaut Team Simulator Of The Future Honors To Ilan Ramon Cosmonauts. Astronauts. Crews Michel Tognini Became Head Of ESA Astronaut Team Three More Manager Astronauts Astronaut Christopher Loria took leave of absense while Donald Thomas and Janice Voss became ISS science program managers. Contract Signed Rosaviakosmos and ESA signed contract on Andre Kuipers' mission onboard Soyuz TMA-4 and ISS in 2004. Enterprises Megaruss Insurance Company Chief Is 50 Boeing At The Center Of 'Rocket Scandal' In alliance with Arianespace and Mitsubishi, Boeing seeks for survival of its advanced Delta 4 launch system. Sharp drop in commercial orders left Delta 4 out of business while government orders were turned down by the USAF due to 'unethical' competition. Loral Sold Half Of Fleet To Intelsat Launches Atlantic Rainbow Towards New Horizons With Atlas 5 Probes Water On Mars: To Be Continued One year passed since neutron detectors HEND and NS onboard Mars Odyssey found large amounts of hydrogen in the soil of south polar region of Mars. New data show abundant water ice deposits in the north region as well, and signs of current water spillage leading to gullies formation. Mars Express: Mission Continues ESA To Build New Deep Space Station Space Power Units Ion Engine Passed Test With Success Japanese Probes Of Past And Future About Lunar Radio Telescope Military Space A Window To Space, Or Military-Political Astronomy Mikhail Sevastyanov and Vyacheslav Davidenko report on the history and current activities Nurek space control facility now known as Okno (Window). Russian 'Volga' In Byelorussia New Star Wars: Tests Of Space Interceptors Delayed Satellites Twenty Years Of TDRS-l Corot: Researcher Of Stars And Planets 15 Years Since Launch Of Experimental Satellite Ofeq-1 Israel: Five New Satellites In Five Years By 2008, Israel will launch three reconnaisance satellites (Ofeq 6, Ofeq 7, and TechSAR), its second comsatAMOS and the first military communications satellite. Kosmos-2397: Not Healthy If Alive Orbital behavior indicates the spacecraft was alive on June 5 but one can not understand which orbital position it now heads to. Galileo: First Satellites Ordered NPO PM Participates In The Vinasat Tender Japan To Launch New Spysats Cosmos-1 Solar Sail At Test Stand Valuable Award To Russian Astrophysicist Newest Maps And The Demise Of Dinosaurs Launch Vehicles Hypersonic Craft As Seen By U.S. Military And Civilian Scientists First Plate Of Airstrip After refurbishment launched on July 12, the Pero Air Field at Plesetsk will be able to support all types of aircraft, as well as the Baykal winged booster of Angara launch vehicle. RS-84 Development Continues Hard Landing Of HOPE-X Model Single Staged Atlas Conferences. Exhibitions Russian-European Summer Space School International Symposium On Space Flight Dynamics At the 17th symposium on SFD held in Moscow in June, participants from government and private institutions of Europe, U.S., Japan and Brazil discussed topics varying from control of multi-satellite constellations to dynamics of space debris. 4th Youth Conference At Vyazniki Jubilees Legendary Test Director Leonid Aleksandrovidi Voskresenskiy, deputy of Sergey Korolyov in charge of ground tests of missiles, launch vehicles and spacecraft, made exceptional contribution to the early Soviet space successes. Surgeon, Scientist, Engineer... Vladimir Ivanovich Yazdovskiy worked on cockpits for Tupolev's bombers when Sergey Korolyov invited him to design cabins for first animal passengers of the R-l missile. Thus he became the founder of Soviet space biomedicine. Memorial Plaque For Yu.A.Mozzhorin Dedicated History losif Stalin Considered Possibility Of Launching Man Into Space In June 1946, head of the Soviet aviation ministry M.V.Khruni-chev presented Stalin the proposal by Mikhail Tikhonravov and Nikolay Chernyshev that looked like a fantasy: to fly men to the height of 100-150 kilometers in a modified V-2 vehicle. Cosmonaut IDs (Part 2) Since 1979, Soviet and Russian cosmonauts were given IDs issued by the V.P.Chkalov Central Air Club (and later by the Federation of Cosmonautics) on behalf of the International Aeronautics Federation. Tracking Station In The Sky In this story by Oleg Urusov, development and operations of Soviet airborne range tracking stations IL-20RT (IL-18RT) is revealed. Replica Of Goddard's Rocket Prepared For Flight Unquiet Sun: 30 Years Since Second Skylab Mission Approval From Cicero In 1974, Salyut-3 commander Pavel Popovich for the first time made a planned detection of foreign space object - the U.S. space station Skylab. 72 pages, 100 photos |
