Dmitry Rogozin instructed to develop a plan for increasing production of “Union of MS”

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General Director of Roskosmos State Corporation Dmitry Rogozin instructed Rocket and Space Corporation “Energia” named after S.P. Queen (part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”) to develop and submit a plan for increasing the production of manned spacecraft of the Soyuz MS series for the development of space tourism.

“After the American manned ships began to fly, the obligations were liable to the delivery of foreign astronauts to the ISS. We have received the opportunity to send crews from three Russian astronauts to the station. The first such crew from professional cosmonauts will fly to the ISS in spring. Recently We have resumed the practice of space tourism. Now there are two citizen of Japan in orbit. This service brings us a living money that goes to the modernization of the rocket and space industry.

We instruct the RKK “Energy” to make a specific plan of action to the state corporation “Roscosmos” production capacity for the purpose of making up to four manned ships per year, “the Director-General was commissioned on Thursday at the meeting of the Sectoral Operational Staff.

In recent years, RKK “Energia” produced four Soyuz MS ship per year: two through the federal space program and two on international contracts for the delivery of foreign astronauts to the ISS. Recently, the American side began to send themselves and return their crews to the station.

Russia is a pioneer of cosmic tourism. In the period from 2001 to 2021, nine commercial participants of the flight went to the Orbit, one of them – twice.

/Media reports.

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