The International Space projects is foreseen

The new program includes a mixed funding - Rs 1.12 billion from the state budget is 1.46 billion USD - from investors. Most (415 million USD) are going to spend for sensing of the Earth. Another USD 178 million provided for exploration of the solar system and 42 million USD - the use of space in the "interests of national security and defense." In this case, the participation of Ukrainian cosmonauts in the International Space projects is foreseen.

Mars-500, space mission for 500 days

Teams of astronauts may soon start work on the International Space Station is not for 6 months, as before, and for the year, according to the news agency RIA Novosti.

First annual expedition will be experimental and will not until 2015 to carry out a test mission will select two players - one a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut. If all goes well, than will be considering a one-year term for expeditions to the ISS on a regular basis.

Solve the mystery of the missing gas clouds, quasars

Scientists have been able to unpick the mystery arise just a few years of disappearance in 19 quasars gas clouds.

The internal structure of quasars - the ancient galaxies, the luminosity of which are so high that they can be confused with the nearby bright star - has interesting features. When approaching the central black hole accretion disk galaxies substance strongly heated and emits more light than the rest of the stars of the galaxy together. Powerful wind of charged particles generated by the heated gas, thus can take a portion of the incident with the black hole matter.