MOSCOW -- A 1 1/2-ton Russian rocket was reported better than halfway on a journey to the moon today, and Radio Moscow jubilantly announced Soviet plans to establish a base there. A brief Moscow ...

MOSCOW, February 5. /TASS/. A Soyuz-2.1v carrier rocket with a military satellite lifted off from the Plesetsk spaceport in Russia’s northwest, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.