Iphedi yokwethula enguNombolo 1 ye-Baikonur Cosmodrome ihlelelwe ukuthi iyekiswe ukusebenza kulo nyaka. Inhloko yeRoscosmos, uDmitry Rogozin, usho lokhu engxoxweni abe nayo nephephandaba i-Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Isiza esingu-1 e-Baikonur sibizwa nangokuthi “ukwethulwa kweGagarin”. Kusuka lapha lapho ngo-April 12, 1961 kwethulwa umkhumbi-mkhathi Vostok-1, okwathi okokuqala emhlabeni waletha umuntu emzileni ophansi Earth: umshayeli-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin wayegibele.
“Kancane kancane siyayekisa ukusebenzisa amaphedi okwethulwa [e-Baikonur Cosmodrome] ngokulandelana. Ngo-2019, ukwethulwa kweGagarin okudumile kuzodlalwa ngamabhu,” kusho uMnu. Rogozin.
Inhloko ye-Roscosmos ithe indawo engu-1 e-Baikonur isetshenziselwa ukwethula amarokhethi e-Soyuz FG. Kodwa-ke, ukusetshenziswa kwalesi sikhungo kuzophela maduze, ngakho-ke "i-Gagarin Start" izoba yiqhwa. Izinhlelo ze-mothball indawo zaziwa cishe ngonyaka odlule.
UDmitry Rogozin uphinde wengeza ngokuthi okwamanje, kuzokwethulwa umkhumbi-mkhathi ophethwe umuntu waseRussia usuka eBaikonur, naphezu kwentuthuko esebenzayo yeVostochny Cosmodrome yaseRussia.
"I-Vostochny launch pad iyamangalisa, inkimbinkimbi yezobuchwepheshe enhle kakhulu, kulula kakhulu ukusebenza lapho, iyi-cosmodrome yesimanje kunazo zonke emhlabeni, kodwa ayilungele ukwethulwa komuntu," kuphawula inhloko ye-Roscosmos.
Source: 3dnews.ru