Space crew return safe and sound

Two Russian cosmonauts, Sergey Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, and an American space tourist, Richard Garriott, have landed safely in Kazakhstan after a mission to the International Space Station. It comes amid concerns that the current financial crisis could affect Russia's flights to the ISS.

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• Space
• mission
• ISS
• Richard
• Garriott
• return
• landing
• Kazakhstan

[Okudoki]

Shuttle will not be able to land without landing strip. Capsule can land anywhere. Even in the ocean. And on other planets too :) Landing capsule looks impressive.

[kibabiba]

It's because shattles are out of resource to fly any more (it will be dengerous) and their new Orion will be ready only by 2015. They will fly russian spacecrafts.

[Type59]

Dont forget the lives

[drake2919]

Your country ran out of money, and after 2010 will not have space vehicles capable of human launch, for at least 3-5 years.

[kibabiba]

There were Buran (russian shuttle), make a research. But it was more expensive to fly at, and less safy.

Single-mission crafts don't need to be kept in order (more money than produce new one) and safier because it's new every flight.

I heard new american Orion will have parachute landing system like Soyuz.

Shuttles are smart and look cool, but single-mission crafts are better.

[Truthiness231]

Learn to land on wheels already ;P

(yes, I know my country has wasted tons of money just to do that)

[Nihilismmm]

Colonize the moon already!