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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Getting into space is one of those things that even Ray Charles would agree is hard, even after you know how to do it:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16326942#story_continues_1">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16326942#story_continues_1</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1 style='line-height:25.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:24.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt'>Russian satellite debris lands in Cosmonaut Street<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16326942#story_continues_1">Continue reading the main story</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Related Stories<o:p></o:p></span></h2><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16317099">Another Soyuz rocket launch fails</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16286126">Soyuz rocket blasts off for ISS</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15335656">A rocket abroad - Soyuz in French Guiana</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white' id="story_continues_1"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Fragments of a Russian satellite that failed to launch properly have landed in a street named after cosmonauts in a remote Siberian village, reports say.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The Meridian communications satellite failed to reach orbit on Friday. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Parts crashed into the Novosibirsk region of central Siberia and were found in the Ordynsk district around 100km (60 miles) south of the regional capital, Novosibirsk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Residents of Vagaitsevo village said a piece had landed on a house there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The owner of the house, Andrei Krivoruchenko, said that he heard a huge noise and a crash as the satellite hit the roof.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>"I climbed up onto the roof and could not work out what had happened. Then I saw a huge hole in the roof and the metal object," he told Russian state television.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The head of the Ordynsk district, Pavel Ivarovksy, told Russia's Interfax news agency that the damage was being examined by specialists and that the home's owner would be compensated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The loss of the Meridian satellite ends a disastrous 12 months for Russian space activity with the loss of three navigation satellites, an advanced military satellite, a telecommunications satellite, a probe for Mars and as an unmanned Progress supply ship.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Earlier this month, Russia also failed to launch a Soyuz rocket.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The next Soyuz launch is scheduled for 26 December from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>