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	First Soviet Satellite Falls in Antarctica
	After more that four decades in orbit, Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday, March 27.
--28-03-2012--
	First Woman in Space Marks 75th Birthday
	Today, on March 6, a Soviet cosmonaut, the USSR's hero and the world's first spacewoman, Valentina Tereshkova, celebrates her 75th birthday.
--06-03-2012--
	Russian Cosmonauts Spent Over 6 Hours in Deep Space
	On Thursday, two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) to fulfill some of the necessary tasks under the Russian space program.
--17-02-2012--
	Russian Phobos-Grunt Falls in the Pacific Ocean
	On January 15, Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that's being stuck in the Earth orbit for two months, finally has fallen into the southern areas of the Pasific Ocean.
--17-01-2012--
	Russian Spacecraft Failed to Reach Phobos
	On Wednesday Russia launched a robotic spacecraft to one of Mars moons, Phobos, but it failed to reach a flying orbit after separation from the launch vehicle.
--11-11-2011--
	Russian Zenit-2SB Delivers U.S. Satellite into Target Orbit
	On Thursday, a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-2SB carrier rocket with the U.S. Intelsat 18 telecommunications satellite blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
--07-10-2011--
	Russia Begins Interplanetary Missions after 20-years Break
	The "Phobos-Soil" unmanned interplanetary station will be launched into space in November of this year, which means Russia will resume flights to other planets after a long break of 20 years.
--26-09-2011--