Russia Funding New Spaceport - redOrbit
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that the country would provide $800 million to help jump start the construction of a new cosmodrome to ease its dependence on a Soviet-era launch site in Kazakhstan.
"The government has made a decision to earmark $809 million over the next three years for the start of the full-blown construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome," Putin said in televised remarks at a government meeting.
Russia rents its main Soviet-era spaceport Baikonur from neighboring Kazakhstan.
It said it plans to build a new one near the town of Uglegorsk in the Far Eastern Amur region and it should come online by 2015. "
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1894096/russia_funding_new_spaceport/index.html
「ボストーチヌイ宇宙基地」
プーチン首相主導(笑)、ロシア極東のアムール州
現実には、 ISSの最後まで40-year-old Soyuz使い続けるんだけど
Russia unveils manned spacecraft -BBC News
"The work is a culmination of a multi-year effort to define the architecture of a replacement to Russia's 40-year-old Soyuz spacecraft. "
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10725093
