The first crews of the Russian orbital station will consist of two cosmonauts

At the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) for the first time there will be crews consisting of two cosmonauts, the Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu. A. Gagarin (part of Roskosmos). In this regard, each crew member will be assigned more responsibilities than on the International Space Station.

“The ROS crew at the initial stage will consist of two cosmonauts, which means that on the ROS each crew member will have a wider set of duties and areas of responsibility than on the ISS,” the press service of the Training Center said. TASS. This will affect the training of astronauts.

The astronauts will be delivered and returned on manned transport ships of the new generation. The station will work out key technologies for future flights, including those to the Moon and Mars. Preliminary design is currently underway and is expected to be completed in the summer.

The head of Roskosmos, Yuri Borisov, expects the ROS to be built by 2032. The start of construction is scheduled for 2024. President Vladimir Putin thinksthat ROS should become an outpost of Russia, “to serve the study and exploration of outer space.”

More about the station – in the material “Kommersant FM” “Ambitions of Orbital Scale”.

Leonid Uvarchev