New Russian/ESA crew vehicle revealed !!!! replaces Soyuz

"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
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"George" wrote in message
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"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
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The Russians have "designs" for new manned space vehicles every few
years. The latest is an attempt to get ESA on board to share the
development and manufacturing costs. I'm not sure ESA will bite since
their ATV would be a good starting point for a manned capsule design.

I thought the ATV WAS the starting point for this one.

True, but ESA has at least notional plans to do this on their own.
Russia's proposal looks like they're trying to convince ESA that they
shouldn't go it alone. Over the years, Russia has made many similar
proposals for new jointly developed spacecraft. Not much of anything has
ever happened on any of the old proposals.

Jeff
--
A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein

That makes sense.

George