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When the U.S. end the shuttle program, Russia will completely control the access to the International Space Station (ISS). It was a symbolic turning point for the long trumpet of the two adversaries. >>> Tàu con thoi chuẩn bị phóng vào lịch sử Space Agency of the Russian Federation (Roscosmos) has dispelled all the attitude of joyful song of astronauts will depend on Russia to fly to the ISS until at least 2015 and will pay for this. "We can not say we won the race to space, but simply we have reached the end point of a certain stage," deputy director of Roskosmos, Vitaly Davydov, said in an interview problem. Soyuz spacecraft using one of Russia - AFP On 07/08, the four astronauts will fly the last flight of space shuttle Atlantis to close a program that lasted three decades in which America turns transporting supplies and crew to the ISS along with Progress ships (cargo) and the Russian Soyuz.From now on, Washington will have to pay 51 million dollars per ticket on the Russian spacecraft until a new board of private companies built.Mr. Davydov has rejected all questions about the rivalry between the two countries and stressed that the ISS first success stories of international cooperation."I can not imagine a universe of international projects that can effectively scale, significance and results as ISS," Mr. Davydov said.If Russia won a symbolic victory, it was a costly victory by making many more spacecraft to the ISS will drain back to the end of a budget is intended to be spent on other projects.Unlike the U.S. shuttle, the Russian Soyuz ship is used only once, except the parts to the astronauts back to Earth.The situation is "not very convenient because it will dump the burden on the production capacity of Roskosmos," industry expert Igor Marinin universe told AFP.This year, Roskosmos reported a budget of $ 3 billion, a fraction of the 18.5 billion budget of NASA.The agency also faced with many embarrassing failures, including multiple satellite launch failures led to the leader Anatoly Perminov was fired in April this year.Russia's space industry has also been ridiculed for his bizarre experiments simulate a voyage to Mars, where the volunteers were isolated at an institute in Russia for over a year and "landing "bunker down a specially designed.To offset costs, Roskosmos hope to build more powerful position in the commercial market space, such as racism, as stated by the newly appointed leader Vladimir Popovkin at the Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg month."The goal is to occupy a suitable position in the commercial market: about 10 to 12% of the market value of 300 billion per year. It is one of the few areas in which our country can compete internationally, "Popovkin said.While Russia made 40% of the spacecraft and launch construction of more than 20% of the spacecraft in the world, is in the country "only a small amount of unfair trade in the market universe, not much than 3%, "said Popovkin.Russia also faces new competitors, most notably China, the country became the third country in the world after the Soviet Union and the United States put a man into space aboard the self-created in 2003.In an ambitious plan, China hopes to put a robot on the moon by 2013 and build its own space station is expected to go into operation in 2015. Atlantis shuttle commander Robert Gibson (left) shakes hands commander of the Russian space station Mir, Vladimir Dezhurov, aboard Atlantis in time to connect to 1995-i Mr. Davydov aware that China has become a competitor, though the distance is quite far. He said: "There is enough room for everyone in the universe. With a certain sense, China is a competitor of us ... but this is absolutely normal and we are not concerned about the market for a long time. " Ironically, the commercial aspects of the Russian space program to make an astronaut from the former Soviet air dreamed of competing Cold War. Former astronaut Georgy Grechko lament: "It is strange that during the Cold War, when our astronauts and engineers dreamed of working together, there are many free services. However, after that collaboration came and now we mostly repeat themselves. " Grechko said, aim to reduce the cost of spacecraft launch the space shuttle program in the United States ultimately did not succeed and with the end of it, we witnessed the return of the ship using used once. These ships are not much different than 50 years ago. "Humanity has lost the excitement of flying into space with the more complex machines," 80-year-old former astronaut said.

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