PUBLIC MARKS from fredbird with tag russie

This has spurred us to develop the proposed concept, which provides implementation of the following four phases of national manned space navigation: - development of an economically efficient reusable Clipper space transportation system. - near-earth space industrialization based on ISS Russian Segment development. - implementation of the Moon program, which initiates the Moon industrialization. - implementation of manned exploratory missions to Mars.

The International Space Station will be dismantled after 2015 to be replaced with a new orbital station, a Russian Space Agency official said Tuesday.