On Thursday, February 17, 2022, the Director General of Roskosmos State Corporation Dmitry Rogozin held a working meeting with the Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Alexei Shaposhnikov. The issue of the implementation of the hero of the Russian Federation, the cosmonaut of Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev’s powers of the Moscow City Duma deputy from the international space station was discussed.
Oleg Artemyev was elected a deputy from the constituency number 29 of the city of Moscow following the elections to the Moscow City Duma, held on September 8, 2019. On March 18, 2022, on the ship “Union of MS-21”, he, together with the astronauts of Roscosmos, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov will go to the semi-annual “business trip” on the ISS.
between the head of Roscosmos and the Speaker of the Moscow City Duma, an agreement was reached on the possibility of the remote participation of Artemyev in plenary sessions of the metropolitan parliament. In particular, astronaut will be able to vote using an electronic signature. According to Alexei Shaposhnikov, the possibility of remote voting is spelled out in the regulation MHD.
During the meeting, the issues of the organization of tourist trips of Moscow schoolchildren on the Baikonur and East cosmodromes and the East, holding the “Space Dictation” for the schools of the North-Eastern Administrative District of the capital on the day of cosmonautics, the transmission of Oleg Artemyev’s Skateband and the descent “Union MS-21 “For exposure to the Moscow Parliamentary Center.
In March 18, 2022, the launch of the “Union MS-21” from the Baikonur cosmodrome is called “Bauman Start”, since the crew of the ship consists of graduates of the Moscow State Technical University named after N. E. Bauman. In honor of the flight of Baumanians, the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier rocket, which will send the Soyuz MS-21, will decorate the coat of arms of the university, and the ship itself will receive his own name “Korolev” – in honor of the chief designer of Sergey Rocket and Space Technology Korolev – graduate MSTU.