Zarya (spacecraft)

The Zarya spacecraft was a secret Soviet project of the late 1980s aiming to design and build a large, manned, vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) reusable space capsule,a much larger replacement for the Soyuz (spacecraft).The project was shelved in 1989, "on the eve of the Soviet Union's collapse." After the project was shelved in January 1989, for financial reasons, the name was reused for Zarya, the first of the components of the International Space Station.

Zarya (spacecraft)

The Zarya spacecraft was a secret Soviet project of the late 1980s aiming to design and build a large, manned, vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) reusable space capsule,a much larger replacement for the Soyuz (spacecraft).The project was shelved in 1989, "on the eve of the Soviet Union's collapse." After the project was shelved in January 1989, for financial reasons, the name was reused for Zarya, the first of the components of the International Space Station.