Sentences with phrase «russian space vehicle»

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While NASA inches ahead with plans for a new Crew Exploration Vehicle, the Russians are racing to replace their aging Soyuz fleet with a futuristic manned spacecraft designed to give Russia the competitive edge in commercial space exploration.

About 350 kilometres above Earth, the Russian Progress resupply vehicle begins closing in on the Mir space station.

Some fear that the rift is bad news for shared space projects, particularly the ISS as the US relies on the Russian Soyuz vehicle to get its astronauts there.

This idea was shelved after nearly 10 years of development, and NASA agreed to use the Russian Soyuz capsule as the rescue vehicle for the space station.

Bolden answered that if Congress were to grant the $ 858 million that NASA requested in the 2015 budget for the development of a commercial crew vehicle, the agency would expect to have access to the space station without reliance on the Russians by 2017.

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