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ISS Turns Into Spaceport Full Of Plants And Labs
Moscow (SPX) Jan 18, 2007 Research and industrial facilities will emerge based on the International Space Station (ISS), RIA Novosti reported referring to Nikolay Sevastianov, chief of RSC Energia. �When it comes to ISS, the philosophy is as follows: in future, the station will emerge as a spaceport and whereabouts of spacemen. The plans are to arrange some compact mini-plants and laboratory modules near the station,� Sevastianov explained. Nowadays, RSC Energia is developing a similar project in tandem with Samara�s Progress Design Bureau. The project provides for the mixture of two technologies. The Parom space shuttle system to be made by Energia will be combined with research facilities, which Progress will develop. Moreover, RSC Energia has shaped a system of computer animation facilities and simulators to train young cosmonauts. �The matter at stake is the program of computer animation and simulators� base, so that the young people could try themselves as spacemen,� Sevastianov said. Related Links the missing link
New Progress To Launch To Space Station
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jan 18, 2007A new Progress is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station a little after 9 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 17, with more than 2.5 tons of fuel, oxygen, other supplies and equipment aboard. The station's 24th Progress unpiloted cargo carrier will bring to the orbiting laboratory more than 1,720 pounds of propellant, about 110 pounds of oxygen, and 3,285 pounds of dry cargo - a total of 5,115 pounds. |
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