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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blackstar" data-source="post: 106966" data-attributes="member: 2126"><blockquote data-quote="FutureSpaceTourist">Not sure that 'agreement of intent' and 'investors found' means the project is actually funded (yet).</blockquote>Alas, they mean nothing of the sort.  Then again, we've seen this for virtually all Russian projects of the past two decades.  They issue a press announcement, then they eventually admit that there's no actual funding available, but they'll do it when funding becomes available.But now that I think about it, this is no different than 99% of the commercial projects announced in the West.  You've posted dozens of images of rocketships that somebody claimed to be building 5-8 years ago, and none of them got built.And, being really cynical, this is no different than a lot of the US government human space programs.  The one difference is that NASA seems to build a bit of hardware before the program gets canceled.</blockquote>