Start manned spacecraft “Soyuz-MS” postponed for two months – BBC

07.01.2016, 23:57

Start manned spacecraft “Soyuz-MS “postponed for at least two to three months, reports TASS .

This was told by cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin a press kontserentsii in MCC American agency NASA.

“Initially, the start of the first manned” Soyuz-MS “planned for the month of March, our crew was scheduled to fly on the new ship”, – he said.

The astronaut added that “in connection with some shifting and changes” Start transferred to the horse of May – beginning of June.

In addition Ovchinin, in a press conference in Texas attended by NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka. This crew will go into orbit on board the “Soyuz TMA-20M”, which should take off from Baikonur on March 19.

A few days ago «BBC» has talked about the steps of space exploration in the new year with a member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics Tsiolkovsky Alexander Zheleznyakov.

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