Rogozin said the position of the impossibility to catch up with the US in the space industry – RBC

Dmitry Rogozin, Russian Deputy Prime Minister

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Speaking about the backlog in the Russian space industry from the United States, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin did not mean the overall situation, but only productivity. He said that the media misquoted him

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the words that Russia lags behind the US in the space sector nine times. According to the politician, it misquoted the media because he was not referring to the overall state of the industry, and the backlog is only one indicator -. Productivity

«Not so quote. I said that in these our “ambitious” plans growth of labor productivity in the space industry, we Americans, of which 9 times behind, not catching up ever on this indicator. But this does not mean that we are behind them the rest of the space. In some cases, such as in the aerospace engine industry, we are ahead of them “, – Rogozin wrote in his Facebook

The same Rogozin wrote in his Twitter

Rogozin came up with.. explanation a few hours later after speaking at the collegium of the Ministry of industry and trade. Deputy Prime Minister assessed the situation in the space industry. RIA Novosti news agency quoted Rogozin as: “We are today in the space industry are behind the Americans in nine times. And all of our ambitious projects say that we have to improve the performance in half. Well increased in one and a half times, but still they do not catch up ever »

« So we will then look for a NASA news or Elon Musk and licks, to explain myself why we do not have to -. That they do, “- said Rogozin

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The vice-premier also called for ways to improve the situation. According to him, should be possible to facilitate decision-making processes, reduce paperwork, and ensure that checks were going through one window.

April 28 Rogozin was reprimanded by President Vladimir Putin, the reason for which was the problem with the rocket launch booster “Soyuz-2.1a” from the cosmodrome East. The rocket, which was the first on this launch site, had to be postponed due to a malfunction. Strict reprimand then received as the head of state corporation “Roscosmos” Igor Komarov, and to the head of NPO Automation Leonid Shalimov was issued service incompetence.