Russia will spend $ 1 billion to build a new space airport

According to the AP, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will spend about $ 1 billion this year to build a new space airport in the Amur, East Siberia region.

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The new aerospace is designed with a complex consisting of two launches, a training and medical examination center for crew, hydrogen and oxygen plants.

A total of 1,500 high-tech entities were deployed.

In a speech to Russian government officials on April 12, Putin said the introduction of the first launch pad and the implementation of unmanned launches from the Vostochny space airport were planned in 2015, the first manned flight will be conducted by 2018.

Preliminary estimates in 2020, about half of Russian spacecraft will be launched from Vostochny.

Putin said Russia will continue to use the Soviet-built Baikonur space airport, which it is renting from Kazakhstan, but a Russian-owned new spacecraft launch facility is needed to ensure toxicity. set up of this country.

Under the agreement, Russia will use Kazakhstan's Baikonur space airport until 2015 under a lease for $ 115 million a year.

Previously, authorities in Kazakhstan have suspended Russian missile launches from Baikonur space airport after a missile incident leaked toxic fuel.