[KevinDavis]

For other space news go to: http://www.spacetoday.net

During the week of October 4th thru October 9th there will be no space postings... Going to be out of town that week.

[GeronL]

bump

Grunt.. lol

Has Russia ever had a space vehicle return from the moon or anything else?

[Brilliant]

I think Venus was their great success. They beat the US and got one photo before it secumbed.

[SunkenCiv]

Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission had been slated to lift off aboard a Zenith rocket in October on a three-year mission to study Phobos and return soil samples to Earth. Yinghuo-1 orbiter was set to be launched with the mission.

I'll make a wild guess right now and say that the Russian sample return mission will never take place. :')

[Vaquero]

China's first Mars mission delayed

whats the matter...did our secret (Loral) targeting technology, that Clinton gave the Chicoms have a glitch in it??