RIA Novosti about Russia’s future human spaceflight plans, which include a spacecraft capable of sending cosmonauts into Earth orbit and to the moon.
Russia intends to keep up with the U.S. in the space race and launch a new manned spacecraft by 2017, a senior Russian space official said on Tuesday.
“We plan to enter the market in 2015 with an unmanned spacecraft and are likely to launch it from the new Vostochny space center. In 2017, a piloted spacecraft should also be developed,” Vitaly Lopota, the head of Russia’s Energia space corporation, said.
Russia will finalize in August 2010 the design of a new booster rocket for a manned spacecraft it is planning to launch in 2017, a design bureau chief said on Tuesday….
A family of four Rus-M booster rockets with a capacity of 16 to 60 metric tons could compete with another Russian booster rocket, Angara, that has yet to be tested, and is a potential rival to France’s Ariane 5 launch systems and the U.S. crew launch vehicle Ares I.
Russia is planning to test launch the new rocket in 2015, and send manned spacecraft with crews of up to six people into low earth orbits and up to four cosmonauts at a time on Lunar missions from 2018.
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