Excalibur Almaz To Offer Commercial Orbital Flights

xp65 alerts to the plans of an international consortium called Excalibur Almaz Limited to open up a new era of private orbital space flight for commercial customers. The group, consisting of Russian, US, and Japanese companies, will use a formerly top-secret Soviet re-entry vehicle called Almaz to carry paying research crews on one-week missions into Earth orbit by 2013. This ambition represents a large step beyond the sub-orbital flight market so far targeted by most other private space companies. "Excalibur has raised 'tens of millions of dollars' to initiate what will become a several hundred million dollar program, [CEO] Dula tells Spaceflight Now. He has spent more than 20 years eying this specific Almaz program... He also says 'the business plan closes' generating profits within a few years. His surveys have found research and science customers for space missions that are not tourist hops, but less demanding than ISS operations."

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Re:Excellent!

[Anonymous Coward]

Is Excalibur Almaz an African company?
Oh, wait...

I keep forgetting. There is no such thing as "race", right?

And "We're all the same".

And "Diversity is our strength".

So I guess when 90% of the population of YOUR country are black, your white children will be living in paradise.

Are you going to do something about it, or leave it to your children to pay the ultimate price?

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[Anonymous Coward]

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