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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 22, 2010 An additional Soyuz capsule could be built especially for commercial space tourists, the head of Russia's Energia space corporation said on Thursday. "Construction of an additional Soyuz spaceship could start in the middle of the year," Vitaly Lopota said. Energia currently manufactures four single-use three-man Soyuz capsules a year, but when the number is raised to five, it could resume space tours that it has put on hold for now. Earlier in the year Russia halted space tourism to free capacity for the International Space Station flights. Russia has doubled production of Soyuz capsules since 2009 from two to four as ISS crews increased from three to six.
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Russia plans to resume space tourismMoscow (UPI) Mar 19, 2009 Russia says its could offer more seats than ever to space tourists when the program begins again in two to three years. Russian halted the program last year because all seats aboard its spacecraft were needed to ferry crew to the International Space Station. The nation's RSC Energia now has the capability to build five Soyuz spacecraft per year instead of four, which means one sp ... read more |
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