Lydia Ivanova, a researcher at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, noted that changes in approaches to the selection and training of cosmonauts in long-term plans for the development of manned cosmonautics will be required.
MOSCOW, January 25. /tass/. The creation of a single cosmonaut detachment under the auspices of the United Nations in the future is advisable, since the cosmonaut community will expand and adopt a new configuration. This opinion was expressed by Lidiya Ivanova, a researcher at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
She noted that in the long-term plans for the development of manned cosmonautics, the main emphasis is on the development of means to ensure the flight of crews to the Moon, their landing on the surface of a natural satellite of the Earth, the establishment of lunar infrastructure, deep space exploration, which will require a change in approaches to the selection and training of astronauts.
"Space cooperation and the cosmonaut community will expand and adopt a new configuration. It is advisable to create a single cosmonaut detachment under the auspices of the UN," says the theses to Ivanova's report on the history and prospects of manned cosmonautics, prepared for the XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S. P. Korolev (Royal Readings).
The materials also say that in the future tourist flights into space will be available to hundreds and thousands of people. This, according to Ivanova, will give impulses for the self-realization of earthlings, the improvement of the aerospace sphere and the formation of a new community of those who will explore space and in the future live outside the Earth.
According to the researcher, at the moment there is a trend in the development of private cosmonautics in the world. "In Russia, the development of the private sector is difficult, since the Roscosmos Group is a closed state corporation, but the global trend of commercialization of space activities, the growing interest in space tourism poses new issues for the Roscosmos Group that require immediate solutions: maintaining relations with partners, creating a new orbital station, new projects and many others," Ivanova added.
XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S. P. Korolev (Royal Readings) will be held at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University from January 25 to 28.
