“I asked the Belarusian side to pick up a girl so that there was a balance in our cosmonaut corps,” Rogozin cites TASS in response to the question when the preparation of the Belarusian cosmonaut for the flight will begin.
In August, Moscow hosted a working meeting between Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation, and Muhammad Friha, Director General of the Tunisian company Telnet Holding, with the participation of Tarak bin Salem, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Tunisian Republic to the Russian Federation.
It was noted that "within the framework of the meeting, the parties discussed the prospects for Russian-Tunisian cooperation in the field of manned space flights, in particular, the intentions of the Tunisian side to train and launch a woman-cosmonaut into space."