Roscosmos decided to use to launch a new cosmodrome “East” technique Soviet times. So from the cosmodrome in the Amur region will be launched spacecraft “Soyuz”, which was created in the 1960s. To date, the unit is used for flights to the ISS.
The head of the press service of the Joint Rocket and Space Corporation Mikhail Fadeev said that the launch of the first manned spacecraft to the “East” is scheduled for 2018 , the newspaper “Izvestia”. It will be done with the help of the “Soyuz”. A platform for the launch will be under construction starting complex, with the first launch will take place in December 2015.
Roscosmos previously noted that the use of new spacecraft is necessary to build a new launch pad. Nevertheless, the Federal Space Agency plans for the years 2016-2025 is a project to create a new launcher «Soyuz-5» . Its peculiarity is that it will work on compressed natural gas.
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