Roscosmos Has Provisional Plans For Flights To Orbital Outpost - Spokesman

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st October, 2018) Russia's space agency Roscosmos has made tentative plans for flights to the International Space Station (ISS), its spokesman Vladimir Ustimenko told Sputnik on Sunday.

The flight schedule was thrown off course last week when a rocket booster failure aborted a manned Soyuz mission to the ISS. A Russian state committee is conducting an inquiry.

"A tentative schedule is already under discussion. But no dates are fixed. Everything depends on when the state committee makes its decision known," Ustimenko said.

The October 11 failure was the first such mishap in Russia's modern history of manned spaceflights. The Soyuz capsule returned safely with a crew of a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut, who were picked up by rescuers in a Kazakhstan steppe.