"India's future space program will rely on Russian technology to deliver a cosmonaut into orbit. The future manned spacecraft will be based on the Soyuz, and Russian specialists will help build it.
The cooperation request has already been supported by both Russian space agency Roscosmos and the producer of the Soyuz manned spacecraft Energia.
"India is interested in developing its own manned program. It is no surprise they have turned to Russia, because our countries have been cooperating in the space sphere since soviet times," said head of Roscosmos Aleksey Krasnov.
The capsule will use the same design approach as the Soyuz, but it will be smaller, because India lacks launch vehicles powerful enough to deliver a heavy spacecraft into orbit.
http://www.subcontinentaldef.net/2011/09/india-to-rely-on-soyuz-for-chandrayaan.html
The project is in the early stages at the moment and will take at least a decade to complete, according to Krasnov.
Russia and India have a number of joint space and military projects, including a Moon exploration program and a fifth-generation fighter jet."
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All is well and good, but my real question is what are they going to name our astronauts as, like just astronauts or just plain cosmonauts. Man this is just going to be such a freaking embarrassment. I wish to see our astronauts to be called in our own language as "vyomaveera"[(vyoma(Sanskrit)-Akasha, veerar(Tamil)-Hero) the reason for calling it like this is to try to distinguish ourselves from the rest of the world. Because in the future when some one calls a indian vyomaveera as an Astronaut it might become synonymous with the american astronauts and the future indians will have a hard time to distinguish our heroes from the rest, or they might have a hard time explaining things like that in the future to another person(Hope to see some good Aliens like ET, not like predator or aliens from hollywood B-grade movies).
Even the Russians are feeling like that the Soyuz rocket has some design flaws(But, might blame it on production lines.) after the august crash which has cost the ISS(International space Station) 3 tonnes of supplies.
But the real question is will India get the best technology or some wish-washy technology that might break our Daredevilry in thin air. Because, the type of Soyuz that is used to take cosmonauts and astronauts to the ISS today is known as the Soyuz-FG. It has a near-identical third-stage to the Soyuz-U variant flown on robotic cargo missions - hence the concern.
Source:http://www.subcontinentaldef.net/2011/09/india-to-rely-on-soyuz-for-chandrayaan.html
The cooperation request has already been supported by both Russian space agency Roscosmos and the producer of the Soyuz manned spacecraft Energia.
"India is interested in developing its own manned program. It is no surprise they have turned to Russia, because our countries have been cooperating in the space sphere since soviet times," said head of Roscosmos Aleksey Krasnov.
The capsule will use the same design approach as the Soyuz, but it will be smaller, because India lacks launch vehicles powerful enough to deliver a heavy spacecraft into orbit.
http://www.subcontinentaldef.net/2011/09/india-to-rely-on-soyuz-for-chandrayaan.html
The project is in the early stages at the moment and will take at least a decade to complete, according to Krasnov.
Russia and India have a number of joint space and military projects, including a Moon exploration program and a fifth-generation fighter jet."
Source:
All is well and good, but my real question is what are they going to name our astronauts as, like just astronauts or just plain cosmonauts. Man this is just going to be such a freaking embarrassment. I wish to see our astronauts to be called in our own language as "vyomaveera"[(vyoma(Sanskrit)-Akasha, veerar(Tamil)-Hero) the reason for calling it like this is to try to distinguish ourselves from the rest of the world. Because in the future when some one calls a indian vyomaveera as an Astronaut it might become synonymous with the american astronauts and the future indians will have a hard time to distinguish our heroes from the rest, or they might have a hard time explaining things like that in the future to another person(Hope to see some good Aliens like ET, not like predator or aliens from hollywood B-grade movies).
Even the Russians are feeling like that the Soyuz rocket has some design flaws(But, might blame it on production lines.) after the august crash which has cost the ISS(International space Station) 3 tonnes of supplies.
But the real question is will India get the best technology or some wish-washy technology that might break our Daredevilry in thin air. Because, the type of Soyuz that is used to take cosmonauts and astronauts to the ISS today is known as the Soyuz-FG. It has a near-identical third-stage to the Soyuz-U variant flown on robotic cargo missions - hence the concern.
Source:http://www.subcontinentaldef.net/2011/09/india-to-rely-on-soyuz-for-chandrayaan.html
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