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| News on space transport and the entrepreneurial space industry ... |
Friday, May 02, 2008 --- 97 days ago http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/?itemid=6317
| A Russian news article reports on a large suborbital space tourist vehicle in development by the Myasishchev Design Bureau (MDB): First private tourist spacecraft is being designed in Russia - Interfax (via spacetoday.net ).
The Myasishchev website has this page with a picture of a model of the two vehicle system. (I think Virgin and other space tourism vehicle companies would disagree with the sentence, "It is worth mentioning that in projects developed all over the world (including Virgin Galactic) little attention is devoted to the problems of flight safety that in essence are determinant for attracting future tourists.") The project is getting funding from an unnamed Russian company.
I've not heard anything lately about the status of the smaller 5-seat Explorer vehicle , which was announced in February of 2006. It was to be backed by a consortium led by Space Adventures . My impression is that they never got beyond the design study stage. The Myasishchev website, though, still lists it as an active project and offers this page about it.
[Update: A reader in the comments here points to another picture of the M-91 vehicle pair.] ... |
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