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RSC Energia to Train the Youth, Establish Research, Production Facilities Based on ISS
RSC Energia has designed a system of computer animation facilities and simulators to train young cosmonauts, RIA Novosti reported referring to Nikolay Sevastianov, chief of RSC Energia.
”RSC Energia has developed an integrated system to train young spacemen based on the up-to-date computer and simulator technologies. The matter at stake is programs of computer animation and simulators’ base, so that the young people could try themselves as spacemen,” Sevastianov said.
The plans are to create research and industrial complex based on the International Space Station (ISS), the official said.
”When it comes to ISS, the philosophy is as follows: in future, the station will emerge as a spaceport and whereabouts of spacemen. The plans are to arrange some compact mini-plants and laboratory modules near the station,” Sevastianov explained.
Actually, RSC Energia develops a similar project, the so-called Oka, doing it in tandem with Samara’s Progress Design Bureau. The project provides for the mixture of two technologies. The Parom space shuttle system to be made by Energia will be combined with research facilities, which Progress will develop.
In another interview, Sevastianov shed light on the plans of Russian Space Agency (or Roskosmos). NASA has made a contract with Roskosmos for constructing two Progress cargo spaceships in 2007 to 2008, he specified, adding that “negotiations on constructing six Soyuz and six Progress manned space vehicles in 2009 to 2011 are also underway,” and that the spaceships will be used to deliver people and cargo to ISS.
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