At the Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu A. Gagarin (part of Roskosmos) said that for the first time it is planned to select cosmonauts for flights to the Russian orbital station in 2023-2024. It has been reported TASS With reference to the press service of the CPC.
“The first purposeful selection of cosmonauts for flights to ROS is scheduled for 2023-2024,” the center said.
The press service of the CPC noted that active cosmonauts of Roscosmos will also participate in flights to the new station.
Earlier, Oleg Orlov, head of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that the Russian orbital station is under development. must be A platform for testing medical support technologies for deep space missions and flights to other planets.
Prior to that, Roskosmos Director-General Yuri Borisov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approved Recommendations for the construction of ROS.
In April, Vladimir Kozhevnikov, chief designer of the Russian Orbital Station, reported that work is planned to create a promising ROS. to run According to him, the full deployment of the station will be possible by 2032.