The Russian and European space agencies have signed a deal to build a six-seat manned spacecraft to travel to the Moon, a Russian space official said Wednesday.
Russian space agency Roskosmos and the Europen Space Agency on Tuesday signed an accord on the creation of a manned vessel to transport up to six people around the Earth and to the Moon,” Roskosmos spokesman Alexander Vorobyev told AFP.
Testing of the 20-tonne vehicle is due to begin in 2015, with the first launch to take place in 2018 in the planned Vostochny space base in Siberia, Vorobyev said.
The new craft will be phased in with the replacement of the Russian Soyuz Rocket, which currently carries most Russian and American crews to the International Space Station, he said.
US space agency NASA’s planned Orion space vehicle is due to ferry astronauts humans to the International Space Station from 2015 following the retirement of the US space shuttle programme in 2010.
A short video by NASA discussing how the solar and thermal energy balance effects climate change and global warming. for more information see: NASA
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The LA Times has created an interactive map of the devastating wildfires currently blazing through Southern California that details their breadth, and the efforts of firefighters to contain them. Each major fire is pinpointed, with vital statistics on how many buildings it has destroyed, how many acres it covers, and how many firefighters are engaging it.
Combined with images like the one at left, which was captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite last night, it’s hard not to get a sense of just how massive this disaster is.—
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