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Subject: Russian plans new Soyuz craft

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Blobrana

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Date Posted: 20:51:21 02/18/04 Wed

Hum,
It looks like Russian engineers have begun design work on a new spacecraft that would be twice as big and spacious as the existing Soyuz crew capsules, and be able to carry at least six cosmonauts and have a reusable crew section...
The spacecraft, to be designed by the RKK Energiya company, will have a massive takeoff weight of 12-14 metric tons , which is about twice as much as the current Soyuz crafts.

But , where the money needed to implement the declared program would come from no-one knows...
The Russian Aerospace Agency has only enough funds to send the two Soyuz and two Progress spacecraft necessary to operate the ISS this year. But Russian and European space officials are currently negotiating the possibility of sending a European astronaut on a six-month mission to the station in a Soyuz.
And we have to remember that the american shuttle fleet is going to need replace in the near future.

So is it possible that there is a new space race in the making?

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