Buran Father' died in Moscow . ... In mid-60s he was appointed head of the Mikoyan' Spiral program that would lead to the Soviet two-stage horizontal take-off and landing space vehicle as early as in early 1970s. In 1976, Lozino-Lozinsky led new Molniya Science and Production Association (NPO Molniya) that was founded to build winged space plane as part of the Buran space transportation system that would be Soviet answer to the Space Shuttle challenge. ... E-mail: buran@buran.ru ...

... It was nothing known about the nearest to the Sun planet before the spaceship flight "Mariner-10", launched in the 3d of November 1973 and flied to the Mercury in the 29 of March 1974. The snapshots of the surface showed an astonishing similarity the Moon's and Mercury's reliefs. ... During the second flight they determined the duration of a Mercury day (88 terrestrial days) the day temperature was 510°C and the night one was about 210°C. The heat flood radiated by the surface was also determined. ...

... February 22 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The station "Mir" and cargo vehicle «Progress л 1-5» operations scheduled for 21-22 February completed. The onboard "Mir" and the cargo ship systems checked out, orbit radiomonitoring performed. ... The Station remains pressurized, the onboard systems perform nominal. ... The Station and the cargo ship onboard systems further checkout and the orbit radiomonotoring are scheduled for 22-23 Feb. ...

... Р?С?С?С?Р?Р?Р?Р?РеС?Р?С?Р?РеР? ... Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is to be the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. ... The ultimate goal of the mission is to rendezvous with and achieve orbit around the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros in February, 1999, and study the asteroid for approximately one year. ...