In “Roskosmos” said the possible flights on American ships – RSUTE

Russian cosmonauts can fly to the International Space Station on American spacecraft, when the end of the test, told Tass Executive Director of Human Spaceflight state corporation “Roscosmos” Sergei Krikalev.

According to him, this is an option, but a final agreement on this matter yet. Flying domestic cosmonauts on American ships being considered as a valid backup option.

«This is possible. These conversations were, but no final agreement has not been reached. However, understanding that it could be as a possible backup option, there », – Krikalev said

The representative of the Russian Federal Space Agency said that the specific negotiations on this matter would begin only after the announcement of the terms of the US commercial ships flying to. ISS. When Americans begin to change to their ships, they need Russian reserves

«And then there will be an occasion to talk about our astronauts» , -. Quoted Krikalev TASS

<. p> on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed hope that the Russian Federation and the United States continue to develop their cooperation in the space, despite all the problems in the interaction between them on the ground. The Russian leader has given great importance to the fact that representatives of the two countries to help each other on the ISS

It was reported earlier that under development of three spacecraft for manned flights to the United States:. Dragon private company SpaceX, CST-100 Starliner (Boeing Corporation) and Orion (Lockheed Martin). The first manned space flights Dragon and CST-100 is already scheduled for 2017.

It is known that in Russia there was the idea to make April 12th a day off. We are talking about the “Day of cosmonautics”. It is already known that this idea was supported by: Sergei Krikalev, who is the executive director of manned SC “Roskosmos” programs, as well as the famous Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.So words Sergei Krikalev, it became clear that he had this idea, as “Space Day” for many Russians for a long time, is popular. Moreover, he suggested that, if kogo-to it is not, then it is necessary to popularize this day.

Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko is now located on the ISS during their connection with the Earth as agreed that this idea is good. He explained that all Russian cosmonauts “for”, because for them it is a professional holiday, the significance of which the astronauts felt more acutely than other citizens of Russia and other countries. But Yuri Malenchenko said, he did not consider it a priority for the Russian space exploration.

It should be noted that one of the first who proposed to make “Space Day” a day off was Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party. Also remember that this day is dedicated to the time of the first flyby around the Earth, which is executed on 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin on the spaceship “Vostok-1».