The Russian space agency has taken a decision in principle to start with a new cosmodrome” East “in the Amur region spacecraft” Soyuz “, created in the 1960s and is now used for flights ISS. This is reported by “News».
head of the press service of the United Rocket and Space Corporation (ACCD) Mikhail Fadeev told the newspaper that the first launch of manned spacecraft from the East is scheduled for 2018.
Using the “Soyuz”, created in the 60′s of last century, with the participation of the father of Russian astronautics Sergei Korolev, somewhat at odds with the plans that were declared in 2007, when the decision to build the East.
space rocket complex” Union “began designing in 1962, the Design Bureau -1 as the ship of the Soviet program for flyby of the moon.
« Spaceport” East “was conceived as a tool for high-tech development of the Far East , – lead” Izvestia “, the words Andrew Jonas; Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics Tsiolkovsky. – P lanirovalsya international spaceport with new technologies. From this perspective, of course, a project to launch out good, but old equipment does not fit into the plan. Especially that the ship will be placed near Moscow, and the rocket in Samara ».
Recall that in the beginning of the year, the head of the Accounting Chamber Tatyana Golikova said that the construction of the cosmodrome” East “revealed the abuse of public funds for 13 billion. rubles. At the first stage of construction of the cosmodrome from the Russian budget allocated 81 billion rubles to build supporting infrastructure spaceport. Total for the construction of the spaceport will spend about 300 billion rubles.
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