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Manned spaceship to Moon and Mars!
Moscow, Aug 22: The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) head Anatoly Perminov today said it would develop a manned transport spaceship for flights to the International Space Station (ISS), the Moon and Mars with the European space agency .
''We
agreed
today
with
Jean-Jacques
Dordain,
the
head
of
the
European
Space
Agency,
to
form
a
working
group
to
deal
with
developing
a
piloted
transport
system
to
fly
to
the
International
Space
Station,
the
Moon
and
Mars,''
Mr
Perminov
said
after
talks
with
Dordain
on
the
sidelines
of
the
Moscow
Aviation
and
Space
Salon
(MAKS-2007),
currently
being
held
at
Zhukovsky,
near
Moscow.
Emphasising
that
a
programme
would
be
developed
by
the
end
of
the
year,
he
said
''In
September,
representatives
of
the
Russian
and
European
space
industry
will
start
their
work.''
Mr
Dordain
told
newspersons
that
the
first
launch
of
the
Russian
booster
rocket
Soyuz
ST
from
the
Kourou
space
centre
in
French
Guiana
had
been
scheduled
for
March
or
April,
next
year.
''It will be possible to implement this launch as soon as March-April 2008, and this is the most important stage in our cooperation with Russia,'' he added.
At the Paris Air Show in June, Russia's Federal Space Agency and French satellite launch firm Arianespace signed a contract for the first four launches of European satellites from Kourou.
The satellites are to be put into orbit from the equatorial space centre by a Soyuz ST rocket. Mr Dordain further said the European Mars study apparatus 'Exo-Mars' would be launched with the help of Russia's Proton booster.
UNI
