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The Soyuz, by comparison, you can think of as a sports car, three crew members jammed into a small section of a module, " he said. "

We've done two so far, we'll be announcing two more on the Soyuz to go up to the space station for 20 million dollars.

Space officials said the Soyuz rocket had reached orbit safely and would dock with the International Space Station (ISS) in about two days.

Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev says the older technology of the Soyuz is nothing to worry about.

The irony of having to send our astronauts up in Russian Soyuz capsules is as plain as cold war history.

The Soyuz would serve as a "bail-out capsule" in case of a life-threatening emergency.

Russian television showed Laliberte wearing his red clown nose as he reclined in a chair set up near the Soyuz TMA-14 capsule.

So far, seven private citizens have flown in space aboard Russian Soyuz capsules at a cost of $25 million to $40 million per seat.

The pair performed external experiments on the Salyut station and remained outside their Soyuz capsule for more than three-and-a-half hours.

Russia's Mission Conrol said the Soyuz space capsule landed in Northern Kazakhstan as planned.

Mobile, Alabama, as well as New Orleans (just above the Soyuz spacecraft in front of it) show up well in this shot taken from the Cupola.

But they sometimes call him something else, too. As Garriott steps out of the Soyuz, a Russian guard in green fatigues is there to meet him.

The Soyuz spacecraft appears at the bottom left.

Now that the shuttle program has been archived, will the Russian Soyuz shuttles begin to have the same grief?

Waiting for a new window to open would stretch the Soyuz spacecraft beyond their 200-day ratings in both cases, Suffredini said.

but china ' s space agency built several key systems on its own , and in some ways the shenzhou is technologically superior to the soyuz.

A European freighter is due to arrive Thursday, joining Japanese and Russian cargo ships and two Soyuz crew capsules.

Seven earlier space tourists have made visits to the space station, riding in Russian Soyuz capsules.

Soyuz is ultra -reliable but many Americans with memories of the space race and cold war hate the idea of relying on it .

At the moment, the Soyuz is the only way to get astronauts to and from the station.

On Monday, three of the six space station residents will head home in their Russian Soyuz capsule after a five-month mission.

The first full-time crew, known as Expedition One, arrived in a Soyuz in November 2000.

The Russians have continued to tweak the Soyuz, and have a new version coming out this year.

As demand for its Soyuz services has grown, the Russian agency suspended space flights for tourists to the space station.

Russia plans to use Soyuz boosters to launch a commercial payload and another Progress supply ship by late October.

Until then, the space agency will continue to shell out tens of millions of dollars per seat on Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

NASA and its partners in the space station program have needed all slots on the three-person Soyuz just to fly station crew members.

During launch of the Soyuz craft, cosmonauts experience four times the force of gravity.

In the interim, NASA will be forced to use a Russian stand-in, Soyuz, in order to keep the space station supplied and afloat, as it were.

It shows the second stage of a Soyuz rocket in the crash zone where they come down to earth.

The supply ship was the Russian Soyuz TMA-20 which landed in Kazakhstan later that day.

To purchase more Soyuz seats, the agency will need additional congressional approval, which it is seeking.

Lighting conditions at the Soyuz's Kazakhstan landing site are also an issue.

Until then, Russian Soyuz spacecraft will carry Americans to and from the space station.

An Indian astronaut will also get a "trial run" abroad a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2013.

The exercise today involves separating the Soyuz from the ISS and returning to Earth.

Soyuz rocket failure in August highlighted the risk of relying on just one type of craft.

In 2004 , there were only two flights : two Russian Soyuz flights to the international manned station .

Soyuz has never headed for home while a shuttle was parked at the space station.

That would mean a long sole-source dependency on Russia's Soyuz, for which NASA is already paying $50m per seat.

Instead, the astronauts were ordered into two Soyuz space capsules that are attached to the station as lifeboats.

US astronauts currently fly on Russian Soyuz capsules to reach the ISS.

The trio will return to Earth in early May on another Soyuz after giving Lu and Malenchenko a weeklong tour.

However, the research vessel will expand to a 6-member crew on 4th, April, after 3 others arrive on board the Soyuz space craft.

Instead, the Chinese have taken the "philosophy" of Soyuz and designed their own innards using home-grown technology.

She accomplished this while serving as flight engineer aboard the Soyuz T-12 mission to the Salyut 7 space station.

Soyuz-U is a carrier rocket launched for 38 years. It is used to deliver different space vehicles to the orbit.

Soyuz commander Dmitry Kondratyev asked Nespoli, who had the best view in the Soyuz upper portion: "Is it beautiful? "

In the full resolution version of this image, you can also see the Soyuz capsule.

Two Soyuz spacecraft are currently docked to the station to take its six astronauts home.

Two were Soviet (Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11) and two American (the shuttles Challenger and Columbia).

Russian cosmonauts also flew a new Soyuz spacecraft to the station every six months.

The Progress is based on the Soyuz design, and can fly autonomously or under remote control from the space station.

The Soyuz TMA-18 spaceship is transported by train to the launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, March 31, 2010.

It will cost U. S. astronauts $43. 4 million apiece to fly aboard the Soyuz later this year, a 57% increase from the first-half cost.

Soyuz missions then began carrying crews to and from the station.

The Soyuz hovered in space while the shuttle-station rotated 129 degrees.

Last year, a Soyuz capsule carrying Malaysia's first astronaut also made a so-called "ballistic" landing, similarly blamed on faulty bolts.

When the Russian Soyuz-TM spaceship carrying him and two Russian cosmonauts