Zarya (space capsule): Difference between revisions

The '''Zarya spacecraft''' ({{Lang-ru|Заря|lit=Dawn}}) was a secret Soviet project of the late 1980s aiming to design and build a large crewed vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing ([[VTVL]]) [[Reusable launch system|reusable]] [[space capsule]],<ref name=bbc20090429/> a much larger replacement for the [[Soyuz (spacecraft)]]. The project was developed during 1985–1989 years by [[Energia (corporation)|Energia corporation]] until it was shelved in 1989, "on the eve of the Soviet Union's collapse" due to lack of funding.<ref name=bbc20090429/> The name of the project was later reused by the [[Zarya (ISS module)|Zarya]] space station module which served as the first component of [[International Space Station]] in 1998.