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Monday April 9, 2007 12:02 pm
Charles in Space Reaches His Goal
Way to go, Charles! Our favorite non-professional astronaut Charles Simonyi finally took off over the past weekend and is now on his way to the international space station with two cosmonauts. The U.S. plans to retire its own space shuttle fleet in approximately three years to begin work on the Orion, the next generation of spacecraft. It will be ready to fly around 2015.
This move leaves Russia the chance to become the principle carrier of crews and cargo. Currently, the country builds two Soyuz spacecrafts a year for manned launches and four unmanned Progress cargo ships which can only be utilized once. They are expected to up that figure to 4 Soyuz and 7 Progress vessels by 2010.
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| Charles Simonyi via USA Today
