Roskosmos will create the National Center for Human Spaceflight – Ghhauto: Russian top stories

30.07.2015 03:48

The result of the reorganization of the Russian Space Agency may be the emergence of the National Center for Human Spaceflight (LAC), which will most likely be headed by First Deputy General Director of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Central Scientific Research Institute of Machine Building “(TsNIIMash) for manned programs Sergei Krikalev. This Izvestia.

So far, Krikalev evasively commented forthcoming appointment: « I would not like to say” ho, “is not skipped, so to say anything about the new structure ready only after it is established and, of course, in that case, If I nominate its leader ».

According to the information provided by the source in the Russian Space Agency, LAC will be composed of multiple units such as Mission Control Center, cosmonaut training center, manned program is now in part of the Russian Space Agency as well as the division is, some RSC “Energia” and TsNIIMASH. At the moment, yet there is no definitive list of entities to be included in LAC.

According to the structure of the planned merger is very similar to the existing in Houston Lyndon Johnson, who is engaged in providing manned missions NASA. The center provides training for the astronauts, the organization of the command and control center for space flight, the development of manned spacecraft and flight training.

NASA- is a structure that consists of different centers that are not only located in different cities and states the United States, but also supervise certain directions. Based in California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is engaged in automatic space systems, starting from Cape Canaveral, the Kennedy Center runs, rocket and computer systems, development and testing of spacecraft engines engaged Marshall Center.

creates and Roscosmos center to provide services to remote sensing Earth to be zanmatsya all filming the Earth’s surface, under the management of the new structure will give all satellites sensing. The new structure is formed on the basis of functioning as a part of “Russian Space Systems” Research Center for Earth Operative Monitoring. Also there are plans to establish a center for the provision of telecommunications services and navigation services, as well as the center of launch services. As a source in the Russian Space Agency said that there will be personnel changes. It is possible that his post would be fired the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center Yuri Lonchakov. After his long and open conflict with Krikalev and the astronaut times in the past clashed with the alleged head of the department. However, information on the proposed resignation Lonchakova representative of Roskosmos Igor Bourenkov not confirmed, but the question of creating LAC declined to comment.

Supervisor Space Policy Institute, Ivan Moiseyev said the idea of ​​creating a new PDC: « The idea of ​​forming the center of manned space flight It sounds logical. If the Americans in this format still good at it, why not try us? All units involved in manned space programs, live on a budget – for which there is no market, there it is actually only about costs. And if it cost money, it is better to concentrate them in one place, not scattered across different organizations ».