SciTech April 14, 2008, 0:29

Russia reveals space ambitions

Forty seven years after Yury Gagarin first went into orbit, Russia has unveiled ambitious plans to advance its space programme even further. A new launch pad will be built at Vostochny in the Amur region by 2015 and five years later a manned assembly complex in orbit will build spacecrafts to fly to the Moon and Mars.