Sands: the decision to postpone manned launch from the East was not taken – Chechnya | News |

There is also a 2023 should see the domestic manned station.

Roscosmos spokesman Igor Bourenkov confirmed the postponement of the launch, however, he said that a launch pad for rockets “Soyuz” will still be built.

With the request to reduce the amount of work at the Baikonur appealed to the President Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian Space Agency and Igor Komarov. The first rocket launch vehicle is scheduled for this year, and manned spacecraft – 2018. According to the plan, the construction of facilities should end in November 2015.

The decision to move the start of the first manned spacecraft from the East was made in view of the fact that it takes time to build a launch pad for a promising carrier rocket.

This is due to the reluctance to build the infrastructure for obsolete equipment and make start using heavy rocket “Angara-A5V” reports checheninfo.ru citing sources in the space industry and the representation of the Cabinet. Nine years later, Roscosmos plans to completely eliminate the use of “Soyuz” and the current International Space Station. Earlier, became aware of the debt of salary for builders of Baikonur, resulting in some of the workers went on hunger strike.

The first manned launch from the cosmodrome “East” had to be postponed for two years. The cost of an alternative embodiment of Mr. Komarov estimated at 60 billion rubles.

Construction spaceport “East” was discussed yesterday at a straight line of Vladimir Putin with the people.