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No flight suits to cosmonauts of Russian spaceship Rus’, replaced with “Egg-capsules”

Moscow, Russia - Only a hypothetical project, right now: “It may not be given the green light”, said space designer Pozdnyakov (Zveda)

In the new Russian piloted ship Rus’, (????), whose design outline is planned to be finished next year, instead of flight survival suits there may be individual tight capsules. “There are ideas to place cosmonauts who do not take part in piloting the ship, in tight capsules instead of survival suits. The cosmonaut enters into such capsule, closes the hatch and sits in it like an egg at the dangerous sta...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1119665
Rome, Italy, 07/30/2010 18:04
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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