ISRO seeks Russian spaceship Soyuz TMA for its manned flights to ISS
Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Turbo in General
The manned space flight, a part of ISRO programs now looks not so far as ISRO the Indian Space Research Organisation sought ‘Russian spaceship Soyuz TMA’ to go ahead with the manned flights, according to official reports.
Roskosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency spokesperson Alexei Krasnov was quoted of saying, “ISRO has applied for acquiring a spaceship for sending space tourists.”
Alexei further said that it would be a commercial deal wherein 2 space tourers could go in Soyuz TMA spaceship. The spaceship will have a Russian cosmonaut piloting it. The spokesperson; however, did not divulge into the deal’s worth, but said, “it depends on the route and duration of the flight, which are yet to be finalized.”
But Roskosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, asks a whopping $35 million from space travelers for 10 days flight to ISS (International Space Station).
When the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited India during 2008, a sign was inked between ISRO and Roskosmos under the space accord. The deal implies Russia would be helping ISRO in the training of wannabe Indian astronauts as well as renders the technical know-how to build spaceships indigenously as part of the National Program of space flights. Its under this deal that the Russian spaceship Soyuz TMA will takes ISRO’s space tourists to the ISS.
