Russian Booster Rocket

Boris Nadezhdin, a 60-year-old former opposition lawmaker, is running a long-shot campaign to challenge Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency and says his call to end Russia's war in Ukraine has put rocket boosters under his bid.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have safely docked at the International Space Station (ISS), five months after their Soyuz rocket booster malfunctioned soon after launch, the US space agency has said.

Australians were treated to a spectacular light show after a flaming object, believed to be space junk from a Russian booster rocket, streaked across the night sky and lit up social media.

The state-run Rossiya-24 television showed footage of the Proton-M booster rocket veering off course seconds after lift-off.

Russia's space pride suffered another blow on Tuesday when a booster rocket failed to place two communications satellites into target orbits, a mishap that came a day after NASA successfully landed a robotic vehicle on Mars.

Boris Nadezhdin, a 60-year-old former opposition lawmaker, is running a long-shot campaign to challenge Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency and says his call to end Russia's war in Ukraine has put rocket boosters under his bid.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have safely docked at the International Space Station (ISS), five months after their Soyuz rocket booster malfunctioned soon after launch, the US space agency has said.

Australians were treated to a spectacular light show after a flaming object, believed to be space junk from a Russian booster rocket, streaked across the night sky and lit up social media.

The state-run Rossiya-24 television showed footage of the Proton-M booster rocket veering off course seconds after lift-off.

Russia's space pride suffered another blow on Tuesday when a booster rocket failed to place two communications satellites into target orbits, a mishap that came a day after NASA successfully landed a robotic vehicle on Mars.