Roscosmos does not preclude the resumption of short-term missions to the ISS with new American spacecraft. At the same time, according to ITAR-TASS, the agency plans to extend the long trips to the station to 9 months from the start of operation in 2015 modernized “Unions”.
According to the head of Roscosmos manned programs, Alexei Krasnov, Roscosmos there is a need to target 10-day mission to trained professionals and scientists. However, the implementation of the program will not happen until 2017-2018 years.
“We will integrate into the flight to the station not only long flights, but flights -” visit “, as it was during the” Peace “and the first phase of construction of the ISS,” – he said.
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