Soyuz-2 maiden launch from Vostochny due in November 2015 - Rogozin
MOSCOW. May 23 (Interfax-AVN) - A Soyuz-2 light rocket will blast off from Vostochny in the end of 2015, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told students of the Moscow Aviation Institute on Thursday.
"The works are being done on time and there are no disruptions. We plan to launch a Soyuz-2 light rocket from the first launch site in the end of 2015, in November," he said.
A new town, Tsiolkovsky, is under construction at the Vostochny space center. It will have more than 20,000 residents eventually, Rogozin said.
He added that the town would offer comfortable homes to young specialists.
On the Day of Cosmonautics, April 12, President Vladimir Putin proposed to name the new town located near the Vostochny space center after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
He told the ISS crew in a communication session that not a single town in Russia had been named after the outstanding scholar. "I think it would be right to give the new town Tsiolkovsky's name after discussion with local residents," Putin said.