This is John Bachelor. Later on a conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman about a success for

Ros Cosmos, the launch of Angara. It is a rocket built for man space, heavy lift. It has strap-on similar to Atlas 5 that can make

it a heavy-lift rocket or a single satellite insertion rocket, on Gara. Bob explains its history

and its significance for the Ros Cosmos program and perhaps also for the Chinese space program.

They'll need all the lift they can get if they're going to build that moon colony at the

South Pole there's a race on.

Bob Zimmerman, Ungara successful launch from Roscosmos's Vastatsny Space Board in Siberia.

This is an important launch because Russia needs a new rocket to be able to do any of its proposed

space station or future planetary exploration, any man's program it's going to have down the road

when I. S. goes away if it's going to have down the road when I assess goes away if it's going to have anything

it needs this rocket it's called Angara and they have done a bunch of launches in

on Garra in the past a whole range of launches it's a rocket that has many configurations. It could be a small

rocket. It could be a very big heavy lift rocket. And the heavy list version had launched

once back in 2014 a decade ago and then no launches and then it was revealed

that was serious technical problems with the rocket itself that required a

major redesign so it's a decade before since Angara a

before since Angara fire A5, the big version had launched and this is the version they need to have a man's

program at a space station.

More of this detail later.