Europe Should Join Russia in Creating New-Generation Spaceship - Agency Chief
Posted on: Monday, 28 June 2004, 06:00 CDT
Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Moscow, 28 June: Russia has suggested to the European Space Agency that it take part in creating a new piloted ship which can be used both for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and to other planets as well.
The head of the Federal Space Agency (FSA), Anatoliy Perminov, said this at an Internet briefing today. "We are talking about a promising universal spaceship, the `Clipper', that the Rocket and Space Corporation Energiya is developing," he explained.
In his words, the "Clipper will replace the most reliable spaceships in the world from the Soyuz family, which are already growing old both in terms of timeframe for use and basic design".
"The Clipper will make it possible to deliver not two to three people to the ISS, as now, but six people," Perminov stressed.
"This is not a shuttle, but the prospect to develop a new generation of spaceships," the head of the FSA said. The Clipper will be adapted not only for flights to the ISS, but also for research into interplanetary space and expeditions to other planets, including to Mars," he explained.
"Joint participation in major promising projects will make it possible more effectively to resolve the most diverse tasks standing before mankind," Perminov believes.
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