Experts corporation "Energia" and the Mission Control Center have developed three variants of the continuation of the ISS program in the near future, RIA Novosti.
According to the source agency, all scenarios calculated from the possibility of launching into orbit manned and cargo ships, and based on the technological readiness of space technology and infrastructure in the world.
According to the interlocutor, variants differ from each other only dates launches to the space station. All of them will soon be proposed to the Russian Federal Space Agency for selection and approval.
However, he stressed, that the ISS conservation scenario prepared proposals absent.
The base for all scenarios is to start in the beginning of December to the ISS manned spacecraft with the following crew. Today, Baikonur is already being prepared "Soyuz MS-11" to start. "Energy" experts work virtually 3 change, he added.
Recall, 11 October was a first in the history of modern Russia accident in manned space flight: Media "Union-FG" is unable to orbit spacecraft "MS-10 Union" new ISS crew. No one was injured in the accident - Russian Alexey Ovchinin and American Nick Haig evacuated to Earth in an escape pod.
ISS is an international project, which involves 14 nations, including the Russian Federation, USA, Canada, Japan and several European countries.
In November 1998 year Russia put into orbit the first element of the station - Cargo Module "Zarya". In December of the same year, the US space shuttle docked to it a block "Unity". It was then docked a few Russian and US units.
The first major expedition was delivered to the ISS in November 2000 of the year. From May 2009 year aboard the station began to work as a part of long term crew 6 human (delivered to 2 reception).
In February 2010 the year of the Council on the management of ISS confirmed, that there is no known technical constraints to continuing ISS after operation 2015 of the year. The United States provided a further use of the station until at least 2020 of the year.
ISS - is the most visited orbital complex in the history of astronautics. Except for repeat visits, by the middle 2018 year visited the ISS 231 Cosmonauts and astronauts (to the station "Mir" in total - 104).
