Said the director of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Tuesday first-year mission to the International Space Station may begin in March 2015 following an agreement between the station partners who were sent crews in the past six months.
Said Alexei Krasnov, in charge of manned flight in Roskosmos that this decision taken by the participants in the conference of the International Astronautical in Naples, Italy, this week.
He added that the mission, which includes two people - with a crew of Roskosmos Aviation Administration and Space Administration (NASA) - will be the first test and its outcome will determine whether to extend the duration of all trips to one year.
Krasnov told the Russian Information Agency "This decision was made basic and remains only negotiate on the formalities. Yet talking about a single mission."
"If proven effective we will be able to discuss the permanent transition from a six-month trips to the year-long trips with partner countries."
There is the International Space Station Russian cosmonaut veteran Uri malinshinko and the American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko hoshed.
It is due to join them triple Kevin Ford, Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarlkin, after starting from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at the end of the month was postponed their trip for a week because of a defect in the technical equipment.
The Russian space program endured a series of humiliating setbacks in recent months, returned to the weakness of experts budgets and brain drain
