Moscow:
Russia has place up for sale one of its space modules, which in 2018 returned a Russian and two Americans from the International Space Station (ISS).
“Descent module No. 738 of the Soyuz MS-08 mission is available on the Glavcosmos web portal for purchase,” study a statement issued late Tuesday by Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency.
“This lander can become an excellent exhibition showpiece for any public or private exhibition dedicated to aerospace,” the statement added.
Glavcosmos spokesman Yevgeny Kolomiyev told AFP that the price tag of the descent module was not becoming publically disclosed simply because it was a “trade secret” and that potential purchasers would require to submit requests by way of the agency’s internet site.
The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft in March 2018 sent cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold to the ISS.
In October the identical year, its decent module, which is up for grabs, returned Artemyev, Faustale and Arnold to Earth landing in Kazakhstan.
Glavcosmos director Dmitry Loskutov told the RIA Novosti news agency he did not rule out in the future promoting “other shuttles, once their mission is completed”.
Moscow is looking for to enhance its embattled space programme, which has stagnated given that the collapse of the Soviet Union and has been facing stiff competitors from US-based tech billionaire Elon Musk’s organization SpaceX.
Russia mentioned earlier this month it would send an actress and a director into space to make the initial feature film in the cosmos and also provide an eccentric Japanese billionaire to the ISS.
Russia’s space market has suffered a quantity of setbacks in current years, from corruption scandals to lost spacecraft to an aborted take-off throughout a manned mission in 2018.
Moscow and Beijing unveiled plans in March for the building of a joint lunar space station.
The ISS is anticipated to be retired just before the finish of the decade, raising inquiries about future cooperation in between Russia and the West in space.
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