Russia will send cosmonauts into orbit with Elon Musk’s capsule. This is a historic moment

This event is so significant that until recently Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos blamed it Elona Muska | to destroy the global space industry with its reusable rockets and to set dumping prices for launching cargo into orbit.

Unfortunately, the reality of the enormous costs incurred by Russia in terms of organizing space missions for its crews to the International Space Station and the declining industry of our neighbor year by year meant that Rogozin had to take advantage of NASA’s offer and SpaceX. It must be strongly emphasized that we are talking here about Russian flights on board a vehicle belonging to a private company.

This shows how Americans are pushing ahead in the development of space technology, leaving both Russia, the EU and China far behind. And these are agencies belonging to the governments of great powers. “In our opinion, SpaceX has already gained enough experience for us to put our astronauts on Crew Dragon“- said Dmitry Rogozin during his visit to the United Arab Emirates.

Experts believe that the first flight of the Russian cosmonaut aboard the Crew Dragon may take place during the mission Crew-5which will be organized in the second half of 2022. In a few days, SpaceX will launch the Crew-3 mission. The astronauts will spend about 6 months on board the space house, and later they will be replaced by another crew.

Dmitry Rogozin, authorities Roskosmosu For several years now, both the Kremlin and the Kremlin have been observing the rapidly growing private sector of the space industry in the USA. They do not spare bitter words about him, but are quietly envious that American entrepreneurs have such enormous potential. The head of Roscosmos has repeatedly appealed to Putin and even begged him to allocate more funds to the failing agency.

Perhaps the situation will change when the Russians watch live broadcasts of their cosmonauts’ flights on board American spacecraft. After the end of the shuttle era, until recently Americans occupied places in Russia’s Soyuz, but NASA began to support the private sector, and the result was a 180-degree change of reality.

And not so long ago, Rogozin swore that if it were not for Russia’s help, NASA would send astronauts into space on a springboard. Reality verified these words. In February, the Americans will send their most powerful rocket on its first flight around the moon Space Launch System with the Orion capsule, a little later such a flight will also take place Starship from SpaceX, and in the meantime a capsule will fly to the ISS Starliner and the Dream Chaser mini-shuttle.

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