苏联计划在今后5年内将大规模扩展其空间发射能力和灵活性,为此,将引入“能源”号和载人航天飞机重型助推器,并且着手规划其军事卫星的全部现代化。苏联还将用各种空间系统继续进行并且增加类似于美国战略防御倡议的试验,而且这一活动将增加。苏联不久就要上马一系列雄心勃勃的、延续到21世纪初的空间科学飞行任务。在90年代末之前,苏联计划至少进行12次不载人地球轨道科学飞行,此外还将进行几次不载人火星飞行,还可能使苏联空间飞行器返回月球。苏联空间计划有更高的优先权并且比美 The Soviet Union plans to expand its space launch capability and flexibility on a large scale over the next five years by introducing the Energy and the manned space shuttle boosters and embarking on planning the full modernization of its military satellites. The Soviet Union will also continue with various space systems and add tests similar to the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, and the activity will increase. The Soviet Union will soon launch a series of ambitious space science missions that will continue into the early 21st century. By the late 1990s, the Soviet Union planned to fly at least 12 unmanned Earth orbiting scientific missions, perform several unmanned Mars flights and possibly return the Soviet spacecraft to the Moon. The Soviet space program has a higher priority than the United States