Mothballed Soviet Gear May Fly Tourists To Orbit

Credit: Excalibur Almaz
A startup space-tourism company based on the Isle of Man may begin using spacecraft originally built for the Soviet military to start flying humans to space in 2014, in the hope it will pave the way for commercial space stations. Excalibur Almaz says its acquisition of two old Almaz military space...

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