Coming Next Month: Review of Russian Space

Later this month this Blogger will visit Korolev, Russia to spend time at the Russian International Space Station mission control room and advance to Star City, Russia to spend time at the Cosmonaut Training Facilities. Subsequent posts will become more periodic while in travel.

Beginning next year, Star City is the only gateway for American NASA and European ESA astronauts to gain access to low-earth-orbit. Roscosmos has been a pioneer in the commercialization of space over the past decade. It will continue to expand that role while being the sole source provider for multinational taxi flights to the ISS the next few years.

Last year this Blogger visited the People's Republic of China and reviewed some of their space hardware. As a result of that visit, an idea for two joint Chinese-Russian-American spaceflights was born.