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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.

References

Suborbital Rocketship Fleet to Carry Tourists Spaceward in Style. Space.com, 2006-02-22.

Space Adventures returns to suborbital spaceflight, NewSpace Journal, 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-05-28.

External links

Space Tourism Pioneers, Space Adventures and the Ansari X Prize Title Sponsors, to Provide First Suborbital Spaceflight Tourism Vehicles (SpaceAdventures)
New group to develop passenger spaceship (MSNBC). Retrieved 2024-04-17.
C-21 Spacecraft at Space Adventures

v t e Myasishchev aircraft
Civil	M-101 M-112 M-150 M-500
Military	DB-108 VB-109 M-4 (VM-T) M-17 M-18 M-40 M-44 M-48 M-50/M-52 M-53 M-55 (M-55X) M-56 M-60 M-103
Space	M-19 Gurkolyot Buran (cockpit design) Cosmopolis XXI (C-21) VKA-23

Spaceplanes

Canada

Wild Fire

China

Europe

Canceled	ARES Bristol Ascender, Spacebus, Spacecab Falke Hermes Hopper HOTOL MUSTARD Orizont S3 SOAR Saenger Silbervogel
Historical	IXV
In development	Airbus Skylon Space Rider SpaceLiner

India

Canceled	AVATAR
In development	RLV-TD Hypersonic Flight Experiment

Japan

Soviet Union/Russia

United States

Active	Boeing X-37
Historical	North American X-15 ASSET Martin X-23 PRIME SpaceShipOne Space Shuttle (program, Shuttle–Mir Program) SpaceShipTwo
Canceled	Chrysler SERV DARPA Falcon Project Martin Marietta Spacemaster X-20 Dyna-Soar Orbital Sciences X-34 Rockwell X-30 (NASP) NASA X-43 Silver Dart HL-20 HL-42 Rocketplane XP VentureStar Black Horse NASA X-38 (Spacewedge) XCOR Lynx Xerus Prometheus DARPA XS-1 SpaceShipThree
In development	Dream Chaser Radian One
Black projects	Blackstar TR-3A Black Manta X-41 Common Aero Vehicle Aurora aircraft Military flying saucers

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