Roscosmos proposed to reduce the number of Russians on the ISS for the sake of economy – Lenta.ru

Roskosmos intends to reduce the number of the Russian crew of the International Space Station (ISS) from three to two in order to save and improve the efficiency of research. Write about it on Thursday, August 11 “News” referring to the director of manned programs Sergei Krikalev state corporation

«We have sent letters to participants in the ISS program -. Want to hear their views on how we reduce the crew and … when the intention to reduce the crew due to the fact that we have reduced the number of cargo ships sent to the ISS, as well as awareness of the need to increase the effectiveness of the program, “- said Krikalev

in addition, the reduction of the crew associated with the breakdown. launch date multipurpose laboratory module (MLM), which was to be docked to the ISS Russian segment. “If you look at the original plan, we have assumed the launch multipurpose laboratory module for the International Space Station, and only then increase the crew. But MLM launch postponed several times, and the crew nevertheless increased. From my point of view, three people in the Russian segment, taking into account a set of equipment, which is now – is a bust “, – said the representative of the Russian Space Agency

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17:59 January 24, 2016