U.S. Orders Two “Progress” Spaceships from Russia

MrFirst · 01-14-2007, 19:41 PM

The space agency NASA of the United States had concluded a contract last December with the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) to build for it two “Progress” cargo vehicles in 2007-2008, a senior official of the construction corporation told a press conference in Moscow on Thursday.

Besides, “negotiations are now under way on the construction in 2009-2011 of six manned ‘Soyuz’ and six ‘Progress’ spaceship to deliver crews and freight to the International Space Station (ISS), ” Nikolai Sevastyanov, Head and Constructor-General of the “Energia” Rocket Space Construction Corporation, was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

Energia, the principal Russian manned cosmonautics organization, has much work to do in the coming three years to develop the Russian segment of the ISS and to replace the American shuttles by new vehicles, starting from 2010, according to Sevastyanov.

“We shall double the output of ‘Soyuz’ spacecraft and ‘Progress’ transport vehicles in 2009. Whereas today we are annually building two ‘Soyuz’ and four ‘Progress’ spacecraft, this number will be increased to 4 and 7 respectively,” he said.
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gunnut · 01-15-2007, 14:46 PM

Excellent!!! Hopefully the Russians make a profit while we save some money. Space shuttle should have been retired years ago.

**Ironduke** · 02-10-2007, 20:32 PM

Sounds great

s_qwert63 · 02-11-2007, 05:30 AM

Why don't you guys try out the Buran?

01-14-2007, 19:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
MrFirst Contributor Join Date: 01-02-07 Location: Empire of Evil Posts: 576	U.S. Orders Two “Progress” Spaceships from Russia The space agency NASA of the United States had concluded a contract last December with the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) to build for it two “Progress” cargo vehicles in 2007-2008, a senior official of the construction corporation told a press conference in Moscow on Thursday. Besides, “negotiations are now under way on the construction in 2009-2011 of six manned ‘Soyuz’ and six ‘Progress’ spaceship to deliver crews and freight to the International Space Station (ISS), ” Nikolai Sevastyanov, Head and Constructor-General of the “Energia” Rocket Space Construction Corporation, was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying. Energia, the principal Russian manned cosmonautics organization, has much work to do in the coming three years to develop the Russian segment of the ISS and to replace the American shuttles by new vehicles, starting from 2010, according to Sevastyanov. “We shall double the output of ‘Soyuz’ spacecraft and ‘Progress’ transport vehicles in 2009. Whereas today we are annually building two ‘Soyuz’ and four ‘Progress’ spacecraft, this number will be increased to 4 and 7 respectively,” he said. http://ads.adbrite.com/adserver/disp...160&height=600

01-15-2007, 14:46 PM	#2 (permalink)
gunnut *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 01-27-06 Location: DPRK, Democratik People's Republik of Kalifornia Posts: 9,361 Country:	Excellent!!! Hopefully the Russians make a profit while we save some money. Space shuttle should have been retired years ago. __________________ "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

02-10-2007, 20:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
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