Posts Tagged ‘soyuz’

The Sprit of Apollo-Soyuz Is Alive… With the Russia/China Space Alliance

Matthew Ehret August 1, 2020 Forty five years ago, Cold Warriors in the Pentagon and CIA shook their fists angrily at the stars- and for good reason. On July 17, 1975 the first international handshake was occurring in space between Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and American astronaut Thomas Stafford as the first official act kicking […]

To orbit and back: Russia developing Soyuz-based pilotless craft to retrieve cargo from space

The state-of-the-art vehicle – dubbed Soyuz GVK (Cargo Retrievable Spacecraft) – will be capable of delivering two tons of cargo to orbit and bringing a 500kg load back to Earth, Russia’s space corporation Energia announced on Friday. The very name of the project – which Energia says will become operational by 2022 – indicates that […]

Soyuz rocket launches successfully after last-minute abort (VIDEO)

The Soyuz-2.1a rocket sent a “Progress” MS-08 supply ship into orbit on Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The unmanned resupply and refueling freighter will deliver three tons of cargo, propellant and water to the six crew currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS). READ MORE: Roscosmos postpones launch of Soyuz rocket due to automatic engine shutdown […]

Suicide bomber strikes near Prophet’s Mosque in holy Saudi city of Medina (VIDEO)

WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO Monday is the last night of the holy month of Ramadan, with people breaking their fasts. Thousands had been congregating to hold sunset prayers marking the occasion, which ushers in the beginning of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar. Alongside the four security guards, the suicide bomber himself died in the […]

‘Saber-rattling & warmongering’: German FM blasts NATO military drills in Eastern Europe

The ongoing large-scale Anakonda-16 NATO military maneuvers in Poland, simulating the repulsion of “Russian aggression” against the country, are counterproductive, Deutsche Welle cited German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as telling Bild am Sonntag newspaper, in an interview to be published Sunday. “Whoever believes that a symbolic tank parade on the alliance’s eastern border will bring […]

Czech FM Says Moslem Integration has Failed

Andrew AnglinDaily Stormer June 18, 2016 Lubomir Zaorálek Another one of those “no one could have predicted it” type things, right? Breitbart: The Czech foreign minister has slammed mass Muslim migration to Europe. Lubomir Zaorálek defended Eastern Europe’s hardline approach to the migrant crisis, pointed to Paris and declared: “Don’t tell us that integration has […]

Anti-terror raid to capture Paris attack suspect Abdeslam caught on VIDEO

Dressed in a yellow hoodie, Abdeslam is seen being dragged to a black Volkswagen by heavily armed police officers during a raid in Brussels’ Molenbeek district. He appears to be unsuccessfully struggling to resist the arrest, which came just a little over four monthssince a massacre rocked the French capital on November 13. The footage, […]

30 dead, 20 injured in cutthroat Boko Haram attack in Nigeria – reports

“Most of the victims were slaughtered and most of the wounded [had suffered] machete cuts,” said Mustapha Karimbe, a civilian who has been helping the Nigerian national military fight Boko Haram. The attacks on the three villages – Warwara, Mangari and Bura-Shika – happened on Saturday. All of the villages are located in the state […]

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