Mission pilotée vers un astéroïde: pas possible avant 2020 selon Krasnov. Une autre idée: envoyer une sonde automatique depuis l'ISS.
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MOSCOW, July 19 - RIA Novosti. Flight Rights to the asteroid in the next few years is unrealistic , said in an interview with RIA Novosti head of the manned space flight , Russian Space Agency , commenting on the recent initiative of the legislators of the U.S. Congress to send man on an asteroid.
" By 2015, it does not really - "said Red . - probably no earlier than 2023-2025 years , judging and in their capacities, and our own . They do not have the appropriate vehicle , and we project will also be placed somewhere to the 2018-2020 year . "
A representative of Roskosmos " noticed that there is another idea, too, shared : on board the International Space Station to send a small automatic station in near space and return it to the board .
" And here is the result of such a flight , more affordable energy , the asteroid or a planet will be carefully studied and its basis will be made a joint decision on whether to send a manned mission to the ISS orbit , or to wait "- added Krasnov .
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