This is

CBS, I in the world. I'm John Bachelor.

Russ Cosmos.

Congratulations, Ungerra flies.

This is Hotel Mars episode and David Livingston, Dr. Space, is my colleague and co-host and we're very pleased to welcome our colleague Anatole

Zach of the Russian Space Web, a subscription site I recommend to everyone

because Vastachny Angara and the Russian plans for orbit and for the moon and beyond are reawakened with the launch

of the Angara system.

Anatoly, congratulations to everyone at Ros Cosmos given these strains on the Russian budget these last years.

This is a miracle achieved at Vastachny, the new spaceport that's been building for years.

What is Angara?

What is its mission?

Good evening to you, Anatoly.

Hello, John.

So An-Gara project which has been going on for almost 30 years by now.

So it's a new generation launch vehicle

for the Russian space program for a multi-purpose,

first of all, military purposes, but also for it was conceived as a multi-purpose vehicle for

human space flight for launching crews and also for commercial space flight for

payloads to deliver into so-called geostationary orbit, which is very convenient for

communication satellites.

So we can identify three main jobs for it the military commercial and

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