Monday, April 14, 2008

Russia To Build an Orbital Construction Plant

Posted by kdawson on Sunday April 13, @07:30PM
from the all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace dept.
jamax writes "Russia plans to build an orbital plant for the production of spacecraft (link to sketchy Google translation of the Russian original) that are too big to build planetside, or are just too bulky to fire into orbit once built. Presumably these are the ships we would fly to the Moon and Mars. Plans seem to be rather sparse at the moment, with the tentative construction date set for 2020, after the ISS is scheduled for decommissioning."

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