“Taking into account the presence of two launch complexes for Soyuz launch vehicles in the state corporation Roscosmos, it seems logical to finalize the launch complex at the Vostochny cosmodrome to ensure the launch of manned spacecraft, and such work has already begun,” he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Mukhamedzhanov added that ensuring guaranteed access to space is a priority for the Russian Federal Space Program.
Earlier it became known that the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Progress MS-20 cargo ship was installed on the launch pad at Baikonur.
On May 19, from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, the combat crew of the Aerospace Forces Space Forces successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1a medium-class launch vehicle with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense.