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 | | Nikolai Moiseev, Deputy Chief of Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, was quoted as saying that the Kliper system will be adapted for launches from Russian facilities, as well as from the European space port in Kourou, French Guiana. |
 | | The most advanced vehicle in the Soviet rocket fleet, the Zenit was essentially banished from the Russian space program, when the collapse of the USSR left its prime manufacturer in the newly independent republic of Ukraine. |
 | | In the meantime, in April 2004, the Director of Manned Space Programs of the European Space Agency, ESA, visiting RKK Energia said that Council of Ministers of the ESA members decided to consider the issue of funding of the Kliper spacecraft during its meeting in December of 2005. |
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