Roskosmos General Manager Dmitry Rogozin said TASSOne of the crew members of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft will need to stay on the ISS to organize a short-term flight into the orbit of a Belarusian cosmonaut.
“Yes, someone will have to stay longer,” said a spokesman for the Russian space agency.
Rogozin noted that no specific cosmonaut has yet been selected for this mission. Roskosmos awaits the list of Belarusian candidates before making an election.
In December last year, Rogozin’s she asked Belarus will find a girl who will prepare for a flight into space. According to him, the first flight of the Belarusian cosmonaut will take place in 2023-2024.
Earlier it was known that Russia could. hungry To the International Space Station (ISS) crew of a Belarusian cosmonaut. This was expressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State.
According to Putin, it is necessary to agree on all the details currently available.