MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- No one doubts that humans will one day fly to Mars. The flight will last 350 days, 20 to 30 days will be spent on the Martian surface and the return journey will take another 350 days. But the exact date remains unknown.

MOSCOW, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- No one doubts that humans will one day fly to Mars. The flight will last 350 days, 20-30 days will be spent on the Martian surface, and the return journey will take another 350 days. But the exact date remains unknown.

MOSCOW, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- On Oct. 26, a Proton heavy launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a Central Asian republic.

MOSCOW, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Anatoly Perminov, the Russian Space Agency chief, announced at a recent news conference that there were plans to develop a space system that could protect the Earth from a potential asteroid impact by 2040.

MOSCOW, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- October has brought welcome news. NASA administrator Michael Griffin, on a visit to Moscow, said he looked forward to Russians and Americans flying together to the Moon next decade. International projects, he said, were better paying than national ones.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. and Russian space agencies announced an agreement Wednesday for NASA spacecraft to fly Russian instruments to the moon and Mars.

MOSCOW, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Russia says it will send cosmonauts to the moon by 2025, with plans for a permanent manned base.

ZHUKOVSKY, Russia, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Russia plans to launch six new advanced military communications satellites by the end of this year.

MOSCOW, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Four of the first six flight tests of the Bulava-M missile (where "M" stands for morskoi, or naval) were a failure. However, Admiral Vladimir Masorin, commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, said the Bulava-M -- NATO designation SS-NX-30 -- a naval derivative of the land-based Topol missile -- NATO designation SS-27-- had been approved for mass production.