The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.
Wiśniewski, Polish engineer and current ESA astronaut slated to travel to the ISS on the private Axiom Mission 4.
The year 2025 puts us one quarter of the way through the 21st century. We'll spend the year looking back at some of the amazing advances we've experienced. In this episode: privatized space travel.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) INSKEEP: Today's first installment looks at the evolution of space travel ... and supplies created work for spacecraft - Russia's Soyuz capsules and American space shuttles.