Flights will become available to ordinary people, Dmitry Loskutov noted to the company
CAIRO, October 28. /tass/. Prices for commercial space flights will decrease in the 2030s due to increasing competition in the industry. This was stated on Wednesday in an interview with the Emirati agency VAM by the CEO of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov on the sidelines of the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai.
"We always emphasize that competition is good. This helps to reduce prices. <...> In the next 5-10 years, the industry will require billions of investments, but, according to our forecasts, in the 2030s, prices for space flights will begin to decline and become available to ordinary people," he said.
"Today we are talking with active players in the industry that we must do everything possible to reduce prices. I think our partners are listening to this," Loskutov said.
As it reminds YOU, the launch of the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft with two space tourists on board is scheduled for December 8. The duration of the flight will be 12 days. The spacecraft will be operated by Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin. Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano will also be on board.
According to the CEO of Glavkosmos, after the December flight, the next such launch, already for Russians, is scheduled for the end of 2023. "The coming year will be very busy, because we have a lot of spacewalks ahead of us, a lot of different work for cosmonauts. <...> Therefore, we do not plan to send tourists into space next year," he concluded.
On Wednesday, Loskutov informed that Glavkosmos signed a preliminary agreement under which two commercial flights of Soyuz spacecraft will be carried out in 2024.
Flights to the ISS
On October 26, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin announced that the state corporation had received a large number of applications for a flight to the ISS from specialists from various countries and space tourists after the implementation of the Challenge project, within the framework of which a feature film was shot in space.
At the end of September, the head of the representative office of Space Adventures in Russia, Sergey Kostenko, told reporters that there are potential customers who are ready to fly to the ISS on Soyuz and make a spacewalk.