Space pact with U.S. is signed
From Times Wire Reports
Russian and U.S. space chiefs signed agreements to cooperate on unmanned missions that would search for potential water deposits beneath the surface of the moon and Mars.
The accords signed by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Russian Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov deal with putting Russian instruments on board NASA probes.
The first Russian instrument is to be mounted on an unmanned NASA probe scheduled for launch in October 2008 to search for possible sources of water at the moon’s poles.
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