RKA | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/05/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscosmos


00:02:13 1 History
00:03:54 1.1 Crisis years
00:05:17 1.2 Improved situation in 2005–2006
00:07:53 1.3 2006–2012
00:09:53 1.3.1 Space station funding issues
00:11:32 1.4 2011: New director
00:12:16 1.5 2013-2015 reorganization of the Russian space sector
00:15:57 2 Current programs
00:16:07 2.1 ISS involvement
00:18:34 2.2 Science programs
00:19:29 2.3 Rockets
00:20:43 2.4 New piloted spacecraft
00:21:53 2.5 Space systems
00:23:44 2.6 Gecko Mating Experiment
00:25:44 3 Launch control
00:26:45 4 Subsidiaries
00:27:01 5 Historic Russian (Soviet) space gallery
00:27:14 5.1 People
00:27:23 5.2 Spacecraft
00:27:33 5.3 Launch vehicles
00:27:43 6 See also



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The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Russian: Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности «Роскосмос», Gosudarstvyennaya korporaciya po kosmicheskoy dyeyatyel'nosti "Roskosmos"), commonly known as Roscosmos (Russian: Роскосмос), is a state corporation responsible for the wide range and types of space flights and cosmonautics programs for the Russian Federation. 
Originally being a part of the Federal Space Agency (Russian: Федеральное космическое агентство, Federal'noye kosmicheskoye agentstvo), the corporation evolved and consolidated itself to the national state corporation on 28 December 2015 through a presidential decree. Before, since 1992, Roscosmos was a part of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Russian: Российское авиационно-космическое агентство, Rossiyskoe aviatsionno-kosmicheskoe agentstvo, commonly known as Rosaviakosmos).The headquarters of Roscosmos are located in Moscow, while the main Mission Control space center site is in the nearby city of Korolev as well as the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center located in Star City of Moscow Oblast. The launch facilities used are Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (with most launches taking place there, both manned and unmanned), and Vostochny Cosmodrome being built in the Russian Far East in Amur Oblast.
The current director since May 2018 is Dmitry Rogozin. In 2015 the Russian government merged Roscosmos with the United Rocket and Space Corporation, the re-nationalized Russian space industry, to create the Roscosmos State Corporation.