BENGALURU: The Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), which trained the four Indian astronaut-elects as part of Gaganyaan programme, could soon be training people not part of official human space programmes wanting to go to space as Russia opens up a commercial space tourism programme that plans to take people to the International Space Station (ISS).
These potential customers will have seats on board the Soyuz MS crewed spacecraft, Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of Russian space agency Roscosmos that trained the Gaganyaan astronaut-elects said on Tuesday.
Glavkosmos, which has been working on space tourism since 2020, on Tuesday officially unveiled some of the details of the programme and said customers can start making inquiries.
“Prospective commercial participants of space flights…
These potential customers will have seats on board the Soyuz MS crewed spacecraft, Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of Russian space agency Roscosmos that trained the Gaganyaan astronaut-elects said on Tuesday.
Glavkosmos, which has been working on space tourism since 2020, on Tuesday officially unveiled some of the details of the programme and said customers can start making inquiries.
“Prospective commercial participants of space flights…
