"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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This is funny enough to post separately (it was part of a thread on
.history)
New Russian "Kliper" spacecraft cutaway: http://kp.ru/upimg/logo_17242.jpg
Bow capsule of Zefram Cochrane's "Phoenix" cutaway:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/ga...ix-cockpit.jpg
I'm now worried...do we buy some of these from the Russians for use as
escape vehicles on the ISS and Shuttle?

Hell no. The Klipper can *replace* the Shuttle.