Russia to do manned Moon flights?

They are going to resume their manned flights to the Moon using the new
Kliper according to this-I know they never did manned lunar flights, but
that isn't going to stop them from resuming them:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/04/08/kliper.shtml
Meanwhile a major hurdle to a manned Russian Mars flight was cleared, as
Russian bakers have invented a recipe for Mars bread:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/04/...ianbread.shtml
If you like day old bread, just wait till you taste three year old bread.
Our military already has stuff like this- I've had some- and it tastes
every bit as good as you'd expect.

Pat

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:40:26 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote:

They are going to resume their manned flights to the Moon using the new
Kliper according to this-I know they never did manned lunar flights, but
that isn't going to stop them from resuming them:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/04/08/kliper.shtml

What I find interesting is this:

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/04/...ceprices.shtml

Apparently the Russian bureaucracy is trying to
artificially prop up falling launch prices.

--
Chuck Stewart
"Anime-style catgirls: Threat? Menace? Or just studying algebra?"

Chuck Stewart wrote:

What I find interesting is this:

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/04/...ceprices.shtml

Apparently the Russian bureaucracy is trying to
artificially prop up falling launch prices.


A certain U.S. bureaucracy is doing the same thing:

"http://www.space.com/spacenews/050411_business_monday.html"

"EELV Launches Dished Evenly to Boeing and Lockheed Martin"

- Ed Kyle

Ed,

I understand the point you are making (I hope I am correctly
paraphrasing it as "lowest bidder takes it all"). On the other hand,
perhaps having the redundancy of two systems to ensure continued access
to space should one system be grounded, is worth the money. It is
something like (although not identical to) insurance.

Blue skies

JP