Russian Manned Mission to Orbit the Moon by 2012
Russia's Rocket and Space Corporation, RKK Energia, will create a new spaceship capable of flying to the Moon. Russia plans to conduct its first manned flight around the Moon in 2011-2012.
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NASA is planning their first landing with Orion in 2013 with circumlunar flights in 2012. The Russians are planning circumlunar flights during the same time. It's the 1960's all over again!
<blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="italic"><i>Gene DiGennaro said:</i><br><br>NASA is planning their first landing with Orion in 2013 with circumlunar flights in 2012. The Russians are planning circumlunar flights during the same time. It's the 1960's all over again!</div></blockquote><br><br>Does that include Go-go boots and hot pants? <img class='' src='http://new.astromart.com/astromart/javascripts/sceditor/emoticons/grin.png' alt='grin' title='grin'/> <br><br>With the design of Orion, it IS just like the '60s for the USA at least. Claim its practical all you (general) want but I still think Orion is just a short sighted committee solution. "Spam-in-a-can Mark 2"<br>-Guy
OK I'm splitting hairs here, but helium-3 is neither a rare earth nor a metal. I bring this up because scientific literacy is a dwindling resource too precious to misuse.<br>(Addendum. Helium-3 can conceivably be a metal under high pressures, if the spontaneous fusion reaction were somehow suppressed.)<br>cheers aporigine "a voice in the wilderness"
