Vostochny's debut blastoff will be next year, hopefully spring, a delay of at least four months.
Details revealed on lunar plans in coming decades.
Blast-off was 'successful' but first planned communication session 'failed' and craft did not reach 'target orbit'.
Workers at new spaceport write messages to Vladimir Putin on roofs of buildings after going months without pay.
20 student construction teams to take part in building the new Vostochny spaceport on eastern edge of Siberia.
Orthodox blessing for Soyuz-2 rocket ahead of historic unmanned mission.
The Chinese media - and even more the country's social media - saw glamorous new first lady Peng Liyuan as the star of the summit.
Assembly of Soyuz-2.1a rocket has begun at new cosmodrome as country prepares for new space era.
The city of Chelyabinsk cleared up its broken glass and divers scoured a lake to find a meteorite which hit with the force of a nuclear bomb.
Siberian Natalia Fileva, 55, co-owner of S7 airline, perished alongside her father in private plane tragedy in Germany.