From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
Subject: [WSFA] Russian Company Wants To Create A Shuttle To The Moon
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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 21:25:38 -0400
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FINALLY! (The beginning of the title is mind-bendingly stupid).

Excerpt:
Russian rocket company Energia\342\200\231s Ryvok project announced Thursday. Energia
wants to use the International Space Station as the permanent docking
location for a spacecraft that could send astronauts to the moon.

A heavy rocket could send the Ryvok spacecraft to the space station where
it would be docked permanently. Prior to the lunar mission, a second
launch to the space station would send an \342\200\234accelerator block\342\200\235 \342\200\224 fuel for
Ryvok \342\200\224 to the space station. This launch would occurs several times each
year with multiple companies and agencies capable of a launch to the space
station. The Ryvok project was presented at the Human Space Exploration
Conference in Moscow.

\342\200\234A mission of the Ryvok multientry manned vehicle will cost a third less
than a mission of the Federation manned spaceship,\342\200\235 Energia\342\200\231s Yury
Makushenko, a representative of Energia, said in a statement. Federation
is Roscosmos\342\200\231 reusable spacecraft, which is expected to be completed by
2021, Russia Today reported. The Federation spacecraft would launch to the
space station by 2023 with a future lunar mission after 2025.
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<http://www.ibtimes.com/uber-space-russian-company-wants-create-shuttle-moon-2374742>

      mark