“For safety net we have the Vostochny space center ... In the near future, it will be possible to launch the Progress spacecraft, thereby unloading 31 sites for the period of Gagarinsky launch modernization,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier, Rogozin published a video from the construction site of the second stage of the Vostochny space center.

He said that the launch complex will include a launch pad with a fire ring, an underground infrastructure for refueling and maintenance, an engineering center and command center.