The Russians were forced to delay the next manned flight to the International Space Station when the descent module for its Soyuz spacecraft was accidently over-pressurized during its testing phase. Thus, three of the current crew members onboard the ISS will get to stay in space a month and half longer.

The Russians launched its Progress spacecraft to the International Space Station on Wednesday January 25, 2012 (local time at the Kazakhstan launch site), with about 2.9 tons of supplies and equipment onboard for the ISS Expedition 30 crew.

A Russian scientist analyzed images taken by the Venera-13 spacecraft that landed on the planet Venus in 1982. He insists life exists on Venus based on strange looking objects that were seen changing positions. NASA thinks something is amiss.

According to reports coming out of Russia, the Russian space agency Roscosmos is interested in joining with the U.S. space agency NASA and the European Union’s space agency ESA for joint exploration of the Moon.

Even though the Russians know their Phobos-Grunt probe came down and landed somewhere along a track that goes over the Pacific Ocean, they really have not indicated that they know just where it landed.

Russian officials announced that its Phobos-Grunt probe fell out of Earth orbit, and crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean.

According to Russian space officials, the Phobos-Grunt probe, originally to go to the Mars’ moon Phobos and launched on November 9, 2011, will instead come crashing down back to Earth sometime on Sunday, January 15, 2012.

A Russian Soyuz-2 rocket was unsuccessful in launching a communications satellite into orbit on Friday, December 23, 2011. This string of failures is a big concern for both Americans and Russians.  

International Space Station commander Mike Fossum (United States) and flight engineers Satoshi Furukawa (Japan) and Sergei Volkov (Russia) landed sideways aboard their Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan early in the morning of November 22, 2011.

The Progress M-13M spacecraft was launched by a Soyuz U rocket at 6:11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (GMT minus four hours) on Sunday, October 30, 2011. Two months earlier the Russians grounded all Soyuz rocket flights due to a launch failure of the same type of rocket.