I can guarantee that every cent from Gregory Olsen goes back into the federal space program.

Russia's obligations to its US partners will end in the spring. A Soyuz rocket will then take two Russian cosmonauts... to the ISS. The third place will be reserved either for a space tourist or for an astronaut from the European Space Agency.

We hope that American shuttles will resume regular flights and we are offering our NASA colleagues the use of Soyuz as a rescue spaceship.

Our counterparts from NASA will visit us late August or early September, and we will then discuss what services Russia can provide to deliver cargoes and crews, and on what terms.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.