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: Soyuz could be flown unmanned (or with a single cosmonaut) to the ISS to provide downmass capability. (The volume is not big and its not cheap. But then neither was the STS.) Soyuz/Progress is on the way out: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ptk_z.html It'll be a few years yet, and Dragon will likely already be in service, but development of the replacement systems are already underway. Had rational decision-making been in place during the 80s, Soyuz might have already been replaced, both spacecraft and rocket with something like Zenit and a "super-Soyuz" called Zarya. At any rate, the new system will have substantially more room and payload, both up and down. --Damon, snowed-in in Seattle |
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Soyuz for downmass
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@comcast.netnet says... wrote in news:a74649e6-b8ed-4b4b-bebf- : Soyuz could be flown unmanned (or with a single cosmonaut) to the ISS to provide downmass capability. (The volume is not big and its not cheap. But then neither was the STS.) Soyuz/Progress is on the way out: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ptk_z.html I'll believe it when I see it. The Russians have been "designing" a replacement for Soyuz/Progress for decades. It never gets funded because it's cheaper to just keep flying Soyuz/Progress. Jeff -- 42 |
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