Russia To Review Its Space Shuttle Project

"Russia will return to its program of building the
space shuttles and super-heavy carrier rockets
after 2018, the Interfax news agency reported on
Friday."

See:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ru...ect_999.htm l

Pat Flannery wrote in
dakotatelephone:

On 6/28/2010 3:53 PM, wrote:
"Russia will return to its program of building the
space shuttles and super-heavy carrier rockets
after 2018, the Interfax news agency reported on
Friday."

In other news Russian media has reported that recent genetic work leaves
open the possibility of breeding flying pigs in the near future also. :-D



Once again the Pat Answer that sums up everything quite nicely.

--Damon

On 6/28/2010 3:53 PM, wrote:
"Russia will return to its program of building the
space shuttles and super-heavy carrier rockets
after 2018, the Interfax news agency reported on
Friday."

In other news Russian media has reported that recent genetic work leaves
open the possibility of breeding flying pigs in the near future also. :-D

Pat

In article f5395926-fa1a-478c-a398-a0fda6fc3f75
@w12g2000yqj.googlegroups.com, says...

"Russia will return to its program of building the
space shuttles and super-heavy carrier rockets
after 2018, the Interfax news agency reported on
Friday."

See:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ru...ect_999.htm l

I call b.s. Russia would like to do *a lot* of things in space. They
don't have the money to do much more with their manned space program
than they're already doing, which is keeping ISS supplied with visiting
Soyuz and Progress spacecraft.

Jeff
--
The only decision you'll have to make is
Who goes in after the snake in the morning?

This is a very disjointed report. Something seems to have been lost in the
translation (Russian-Chinese-English). Nevertheless, a huge assumption has
been made if anyone thinks this refers to Buran. More likely it refers to
the RKK Energiya-led intention to reinstate the Kliper project. Of course,
contractor-based intentions and the intentions of those who hold the purse
strings in Moscow are not necessarily the same thing!

Eddie Lyons
Portsmouth, UK

wrote in message
...
"Russia will return to its program of building the
space shuttles and super-heavy carrier rockets
after 2018, the Interfax news agency reported on
Friday."

See:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ru...ect_999.htm l

On 6/29/2010 1:26 PM, Eddie Lyons wrote:
This is a very disjointed report. Something seems to have been lost in the
translation (Russian-Chinese-English). Nevertheless, a huge assumption has
been made if anyone thinks this refers to Buran. More likely it refers to
the RKK Energiya-led intention to reinstate the Kliper project. Of course,
contractor-based intentions and the intentions of those who hold the purse
strings in Moscow are not necessarily the same thing!




They are also supposed to be working on a new booster:
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ppts_lv.html#development

Pat

On Jun 29, 11:28*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 6/29/2010 1:26 PM, Eddie Lyons wrote:

This is a very disjointed report. Something seems to have been lost in the
translation (Russian-Chinese-English). Nevertheless, a huge assumption has
been made if anyone thinks this refers to Buran. More likely it refers to
the RKK Energiya-led intention to reinstate the Kliper project. Of course,
contractor-based intentions and the intentions of those who hold the purse
strings in Moscow are not necessarily the same thing!

They are also supposed to be working on a new booster:http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ppts_lv.html#development

Pat

Russia will be launching their NEW MIR 2 station shortly on their new
superbooster, meanwhile NASA will be building the new saturn 5s and
for mars the saturn 10 called the armstrong booster. with visions of
manned trips all over the solar system using the new nuke booster for
outer planet trips, 2 months to mars

Nice to dream isnt it

On Jun 29, 12:05*am, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 6/28/2010 3:53 PM, wrote:

"Russia will return to its program of building the
space shuttles and super-heavy carrier rockets
after 2018, the Interfax news agency reported on
Friday."

In other news Russian media has reported that recent genetic work leaves
open the possibility of breeding flying pigs in the near future also. :-D

Russia built the Buran, even if they then mothballed it until the
hangar roof fell on it.

Given that the country is making so much money from exports of natural
gas to Europe that it has been able to re-arm itself to Cold War
levels - so that it could have fun invading Georgia with impunity - it
does not at all seem to me implausible, especially now that they have
access to modern technology like microprocessors (instead of having to
make do with computers no more powerful than a 360/75, built from
discrete transistors) that they could manage to build a rocket capable
of sending a man to the moon, and returning him safely to the Earth.

Even if the spending would have to be spread out over more than one
decade.

John Savard

On Jul 1, 5:16*pm, Quadibloc wrote:
On Jun 29, 12:05*am, Pat Flannery wrote:

On 6/28/2010 3:53 PM, wrote:

"Russia will return to its program of building the
space shuttles and super-heavy carrier rockets
after 2018, the Interfax news agency reported on
Friday."

In other news Russian media has reported that recent genetic work leaves
open the possibility of breeding flying pigs in the near future also. :-D

Russia built the Buran, even if they then mothballed it until the
hangar roof fell on it.

Given that the country is making so much money from exports of natural
gas to Europe that it has been able to re-arm itself to Cold War
levels - so that it could have fun invading Georgia with impunity - it
does not at all seem to me implausible, especially now that they have
access to modern technology like microprocessors (instead of having to
make do with computers no more powerful than a 360/75, built from
discrete transistors) that they could manage to build a rocket capable
of sending a man to the moon, and returning him safely to the Earth.

Even if the spending would have to be spread out over more than one
decade.

John Savard

Russia will no doubt be more interested in arming itself, rather than
traveling to the moon