Russia And Europe Discuss Developing New Manned Spacecraft

by Staff Writers
Moscow (AFP) Jan 18, 2007
Russian space agency Roskosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) are in talks to jointly build a space vehicle that could be launched from a base in French Guiana, representatives of Russian space constructor RKK Energiya and ESA said Thursday. The vehicle would be based on an updated version of the Russian Soyuz, and could be ready for its first flight by 2010 and launched by the Russian Soyuz-2 rocket, RKK Energiya head Nikolai Sevastyanov was quoted by news agency ITAR-TASS as saying.

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