“We gathered in this wonderful place, not only to celebrate the launch of a new spacecraft, but also to celebrate a bold and triumphant return to the stars,” RIA Novosti quotes.
According to him, former US leaders have made the country dependent on foreign powers on the issue of space.
“There will be no more of this,” he added.
Earlier it became known that the Falcon 9 rocket with two NASA astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft launched to the International Space Station from the Cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida.