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 Russia Trumpets 'Era of Soyuz' as U.S. Shuttles End

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PostSubject: Russia Trumpets 'Era of Soyuz' as U.S. Shuttles End   Russia Trumpets 'Era of Soyuz' as U.S. Shuttles End EmptyThu Jul 21, 2011 9:54 pm

A half-century of America sending Americans into space came to an end
Thursday -- and the era of the Soyuz and the cosmonaut began, Russia
trumpeted Thursday.
After decades of inspiring millions around the globe, space shuttle
Atlantis made a final, picture-perfect touchdown at Kennedy Space
Center at 5:56 a.m. (EST) Thursday morning -- the final rest for the
last flight of the mind-bogglingly massive science achievement.
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July, 2011: A Soyuz rocket is erected on the launch
pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome. Moscow declared it was now "the era of
the Soyuz" after the US shuttle's last flight left the Russian system as
the sole means for delivering astronauts to the International Space
Station.

[h=2]"Job
well done, America," mission control told Atlantis pilot Doug Hurley
and the thousands watching and listening to the landing in the pre-dawn
dark.
[/h]

Even Russia's space agency -- a long-time partner in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
and begrudging bedfellow for NASA -- had to note the historic
accomplishments of the U.S. space program, writing in a statement that
"mankind acknowledges the role of American spaceships in exploring the
cosmos."

So long -- and thanks for the help, the statement seemed to read.


"From today, the era of the Soyuz has started in manned space flight,
the era of reliability," the Russian space agency Roskosmos said.


With the last flight of NASA's storied space shuttles, the only way for
America to send men and supplies into space is Russia's Soyuz craft --
a far simpler, less glamorous rocket that has changed little since
Yuri Gagarin became the first man in orbit in 1961.


Alan Shepard followed close on his heels, becoming the second person -- and the first American -- in space mere months later.


Though simpler, the Soyuz craft is a great drain on NASA funds: Russia
charges the space agency up to $63 million per seat on its spacecraft.


As the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
came to an end, Roskosmos touted the virtues of the Soyuz spacecraft,
which lands vertically with the aid of parachutes after leaving orbit,
noted a story by the AFP news service. There is a simple answer to why
the Soyuz was still flying after the shuttles retired, according to
Roskosmos -- "reliability and not to mention cost efficiency."

It lashed out at what it said were foreign media descriptions of the
Soyuz as old spaceships, saying the design was constantly being
modernized.

But can these "modernization" efforts keep pace with the next-generation fleets even now being built by American companies?


Several private companies are currently vying to build the new
spacecraft NASA will need for future cargo runs and astronaut ferry
flights, with NASA paying out tens of million to help fuel their
efforts -- part of the Commercial Crew Development 2 (CCDev2) program.
The front-runner hopes to make its first shipment of supplies as early
as the end of this year.

The four companies leading the push: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
of Kent, Wash., which won $22 million from NASA; Sierra Nevada Corp.
of Louisville, Colo., which was awarded $80 million; Space Exploration
Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., which got $75 million; and
Boeing of Houston, which received $92.3 million.
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