The “Roskosmos” plan to improve the effectiveness of the program of the research on the International Space Station and to reduce costs. Now, instead of the three astronauts in the Russian segment will be two.
According to the director
manned programs of the state corporation “Roscosmos” cosmonaut Sergei
Krikalev, ISS letter to participants of the program, including the Control Center
Mission and the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has
directed. The State Corporation want to hear the views of as a crew cut and when.
The former cosmonaut said that in addition to increasing the efficiency of
in favor of reducing the number of crew said another factor in reducing the number of
sent to the station cargo ships. Krikalev also complains about the delay
construction of new modules of the domestic segment of the station, starts from three
them for different reasons postponed to 2017-2018 years.
According to the newspaper “Izvestia” in this case we are talking about
multifunction laboratory, units and scientific power modules (MLM
UM and BEP). Krikalev said that initially planned launch of the first, and then
an increase in crew. Now, from his point of view, three people in Russia
ISS segment – a bust
“Run MLM postponed several times, and the crew have increased..
So, it would be better to enter it in order to have two people on the ISS
the Russian side “, – said director of manned programs
state corporation “Roscosmos”.
“You can continue to earn on delivery of foreign tourists and astronauts”
However, the reduction in the number of crew is beneficial to our country
since the earnings point of view, by delivering astronauts to the ISS, even after
the US National Aerospace Agency (NASA) will have new ships. For delivery
one astronaut now, “Roskosmos” gets $ 55-60 million. And after 2018
year, according to the chief editor of “Space News” Igor
Marinin, this source of income can be reduced.
“After two years, foreigners will fly on
ISS their ships, we have cleared two of the four ships a year. Does
sense to put them in three people if you can sit on the vacant place
one conditional tourist and get paid for it? Of course, you can take it
place loads “- ask an expert
According to the draft of the Federal Space Program for.
2016-2025 years will be spent on the work of the Russian segment of the ISS 252.1
billion rubles. For the maintenance of the plant leaves $ 6-6.5 billion per year,
which pays 50% of NASA,
and the other half is divided between the European Space Agency, Japan
Agency Space and “Roskosmos”.
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