Seats Six Full Size Adults and Their Luggage
RKK Energiya, the Russian space company, has announced plans to design a replacement for the venerable Soyuz capsule. Given sufficient funding, the company says that it can have the new capsule flying in five years.
The new capsule, dubbed "Clipper," will have twice the passenger capacity of the old Soyuz, and weigh twice as much. Further, it will be reusable up to 25 times, a significant improvement over the single use Soyuz. While the article does not specifically mention it, I presume that since they're calling it a capsule, the vehicle will not be winged, and will hard land (slowed by parachutes) on the ground like the current model.
At least someone's thinking ahead.
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I'm pretty sure their current
I'm pretty sure their current designs fire rockets at the last second to cushion the fall under chute. I also think they lost a crew once where the rockets didn't fire, or they were at least injured from the impact.
Yeah, and they also lost
Yeah, and they also lost another crew when the capsule lost pressure on reentry. The crew didn't have spacesuits.
In any event, it won't be gliding home.
Nothing in there about cup
Nothing in there about cup holders. Is a DVD player standard?
DVD player? What? So they can
DVD player? What? So they can watch pornos while they take off? What happens if a little kid happens to be watching some film of the inside of the cockpit and they are watching a porno then? Do we go into orbit to arrest the astronauts?
Ah, yes- I'm glad someone is
Ah, yes- I'm glad someone is thinking of the children. They can be arrested when they come back. And they have to come back sooner or later.
Now if they were smoking too, then it would be arrest them in orbit and send their asses to gulag. Forever.