Excalibur Almaz has begun work towards refurbishing and flying space capsules and stations based on Soviet-era Almaz vehicles.
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Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao is now a director of Excalibur Almaz, a company trying to create a space station using old Soviet-era hardware.
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It may not be a household phrase today, but remember you saw Excalibur Almaz here first. And when it hits the big time, writer Clay Morgan (formerly of McCall) will have something to do with it.
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A look at the people behind the Excalibur Almaz program.
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The 3-person Almaz capsules can take people or cargo to a space station, take passengers on their own orbital journeys, or orbit autonomously.
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A description of the Almaz capsule, including a photograph.
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Some thoughts about the planned Excalibur Almaz space station with an artist rendition of its return capsule.
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Some pictures of modules to be used in the planned Excalibur Almaz space station.
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Isle of Man-based Excalibur Almaz plans to launch a private space station using modernized Soviet TKS space capsules and Almaz space stations. Missions will support orbital space tourism, and provide test beds for experiments in a microgravity environment.
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Richard Branson has tapped four San Diego County travel agents to begin selling Virgin Galactic spaceflights, expected to launch in 2009. So far, only one of the space agents has landed a customer.
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