“If we do replace the Soyuz MS for servicing orbital stations ... we need to make a reusable spacecraft of a completely different configuration - something like Buran with the ability to land on runways,” he told RIA Novosti.
According to the head of Roscosmos, this task has already been assigned to the corporation's engineers.
Soyuz MS, of course, will still serve. It is constantly being upgraded. But endless modernization is detrimental to the development of space technology, ”he added.
Rogozin also spoke about plans to develop a technology for landing a spacecraft on an asteroid.