According to the head of the state corporation, the Russian Federation does not intend to "give this niche to the Americans"
BAIKONUR /Kazakhstan/, December 8. /tass/. Roscosmos does not plan to give the USA a niche of space tourism, said Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of the state corporation, at a meeting with Russian members of the cosmonaut squad.
"We will not give this niche to the Americans, we are ready to fight for it," he said after the launch of the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft with two space tourists.
Soyuz MS-20 was launched on Wednesday from the 31st site of Baikonur. TASS correspondent cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano went into orbit on it. The duration of the flight will be 12 days. Misurkin, Maezawa and Hirano will return to Earth on the morning of December 20.
