Independant
Russian scientists have lost contact with an experimental satellite filled with geckos that was to be the focus of new research on animal sex in zero-gravity.
The Foton-M4 spacecraft was launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome on 19 July and made several orbits of the planet before it stopped responding to commands from Roscosmos, Russia’s Federal Space Agency.
With NASA's long-term strategy for human missions to Mars in flux, heads of several space agencies said they supported initial missions to the moon as a key step before going to Mars.
The 22-nation European Space Agency has forced its science program to lay an offering at the alter of the agency’s struggling ExoMars mission with Russia, allowing a European rover to be launched in 2020 to complement the Mars orbiter already in service.
Last week, the inaugural launch of a rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in far eastern Russia was delayed for a day due to a technical glitch, most likely caused by a cable with defective soldering joints. Russia President Vladimir Putin was on hand and was reportedly not amused by the one-day delay.
Whelp...if one day mutated space geckos land on earth and plan to take us over, we'll know who to blame...DAMN DIRTY RUSSIANS!
Maybe star trek was real and this is what created Gorns. Thanks a lot Russia.
Ukrainian rebels thought it was a B2 bomber.
Geckzilla.
Russia is all the rage these days. Somewhat literally.