Space Adventures Explorer | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 17/05/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolis_XXI





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Cosmopolis XXI was a late 2000s Russian concept launch vehicle billed as a space tourism vehicle, similar to Mojave Aerospace's Tier One program. Designed and built by the Myasishchev Design Bureau, it would use the M-55X launch aircraft (derived from Myasishchev M-55), and the proposed C-21 spaceplane or its successor the Explorer. It would be a TSTSO (Two-Stage to SubOrbit) launch platform.
The Explorer spaceplane is a suborbital tourist spaceplane based on the  C-21 design. The plane was being developed by Space Adventures with the Russian Federal Space Agency and was intended to carry 3 passengers. It is to be air-launched by carrier aircraft from a Space Adventures spaceport.  Space Adventures abandoned the Explorer project in 2010 because "it got too expensive."  It is unclear if Russia continues its development.