Russia Orders Probe of Latest Space Launch Failure
Russia Orders Probe of Latest Space Launch Failure by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News) Saturday May 16 th , 2015 at 7:17 PM Voice Of America 1 Share Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev has ordered the formation of a special commission to probe the failed launch early Saturday of a Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite into space. The probe announcement came just hours after the Proton-M rocket and its payload exploded in the skies over Kazakhstan about eight minutes after liftoff. The Russian federal space agency Roscosmos, in an early report, said a problem in the rocket's steering engines surfaced in the suborbital... After decades in the shadows, gays in Ireland ready for coming-out party by Griff Witte Saturday May 16 th , 2015 at 6:48 PM World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post 1 Share DUBLIN — Catholic and deeply conservative, Ireland was long kno