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Russia, Europe Target 2018 for Spaceship Debut
By The Associated Press
posted: 14 May 2008
6:09 pm ET
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's space
agency says a planned Russian-European spacecraft should make its first manned
flight in a decade's time.
Roskosmos and the European Space
Agency are firming up plans to jointly build a craft
that could orbit Earth and travel to the moon.
The Russian agency says the
craft potentially could carry
a crew of six and would lift off from a launch facility Russia will be
building in eastern Siberia.
Roskosmos said in a
statement Wednesday that the space agencies want to conduct the first test
flight in 2015 and the first manned launch in 2018.
It said Russia will build
the capsule and the ESA will be responsible for the service module and the
engine block.
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