Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and risks losing its place as a leader in space travel, a veteran cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin said in an interview published Friday.
Efforts to build a successor to the 40-year-old Soyuz spacecraft have dragged on with no end in sight, Tyurin told Novaya Gazeta. Tyurin, a veteran of two missions to the international space station in 2001 and 2007, blamed the slow progress on a lack of clear goals and poor coordination.
(AP)
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