The Russians want in on President Bush's plan to go to the moon
and Mars over the next 25 years. In fact, they might just go
themselves.
"Even though our space engineers lacked money to build new
hardware, they have done a lot of prospective design work," said
Russian Space Agency spokesman Vyacheslav Mikhailichenko. "We have
preserved and developed our scientific potential."
Russian aerospace firms hope they can bring that sort of forward
thinking to the table as NASA figures out what sorts of vehicles it
will need to get to the moon and stay there, much less the space
vehicles it needs to allow humans to explore Mars.