great!


"Energiya engineers were also working on a huge spaceship for a flight to Mars, set to weigh 660 tons"

>Sigh< Our Russian friends are always promising big things, and I'm sure they would be able to deliver... if only they had the funding. My money is on the Soyuz carrying on for at least the next 10 years... unless they've had this thing ready to go for a while.

Still, I would love to see it fly. If I make stupid amounts of money, I may buy one for my own personal excursions.

>EDIT<

Of course, there's a big leap to be made when you use a 60s design for a 21st century spacecraft! I guess they're only using the basic principles behind it.

[Edited on 22-3-2004 by Lampyridae]

They had a shuttle similar to ours, it flew and landed 1 unmanned mission and was cancelled because of no funds. Says something about their skills when we never have launched and landed a shuttle unmanned. Its a shame that the world isnt pitching in the name of space exploration.

Is it just me, or does it look like a star trek shuttlepod?

The original russian space shuttle which was copied from ours, flew 1 mission, ran out of funding, and is now in the middle of a park in russia, moscow or close to it i think

PEACE![font=Comic Sans MS]How you doin'?[/font]

They will never finish it. They dont have enough money to finish it, or maybe even start it.

First of all please children stop scream and bashing.

Second is that Russia had alot of experence with shuttles and this one is not any worse then the last one.

This one have room for 6 vs. 3 in the last one.

Also it will be much more modern.

Out,
Russian

The ISS is sapping any remaining energy the Russians have, so I dont think this will go very far, the Soyuz is doing fine.