15:26 // 01/01/2006 Specialists of the design bureau of transport engineering are modernizing the starting complex for Zenit launch vehicles at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This was announced by ITAR-TASS today by the Director General of the KBTM Alexei Gonchar. "We must carry out a number of improvements to provide the Zenit launch planned at the end of the year in the interests of the Ministry of Defense," he said.

NASA entered into a contract with Lockheed Martin for the design and construction of the next generation of manned spacecraft. Orion devices will replace the aging shuttle fleet, which will stop operating in 2010. They will be able to deliver astronauts to earth orbit, to the moon, and will also be able to carry out more long flights. Unlike Shattl, Orion has no wings and at the end of the flight will be landed by parachute.

10:08 // 01/01/2006 In Russia, from today, a law has been into force, which provides a simplified procedure for registering property rights to real estate. The document signed by the President of Russia establishes a simplified procedure for registering ownership of land plots to maintain personal subsidiary plow and summer house, gardening, gardening and individual housing construction, as well as houses and buildings located on them, informs ITAR-TASS .