MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st October, 2018) Russia's space agency Roscosmos has made tentative plans for flights to the International Space Station, 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 next manned flight make take place on December 3, a source in the space industry told Sputnik. The current crew is expected to return in the Soyuz capsule berthed to the ISS on December 20.
"The dates of launch and return are respectively December 3 and December 20. They are provisional and subject to confirmation at the committee's meeting on October 30," the source 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.
