At the Mission Control Center, a quarter of staff will be reduced

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TASS reports , citing a source in the industry, that out of 800 employees of the Moscow-based Flight Control Center, 200 will be cut. The reduction will be carried out in stages, it will last until mid-April.

The reason for the cuts is not financial problems, but the need to recruit young employees. The management wants to rejuvenate the team, so in the overwhelming number of cases, employees of retirement age will leave their places. Instead of the abbreviated, it is planned to recruit young people, it is planned to create new divisions instead of the ones that previously existed with preserving the total number of personnel.
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Another source indicates that they will cut 30% and will not recruit anyone.

RIA Novosti also reports that the new head of Roscosmos, Igor Komarov, spoke about the need to recalculate the cost of projects due to the fall of the ruble exchange rate relative to other world currencies. This is due to the course that has changed almost twice and the share of imported components that is high in some areas of the production of spacecraft. According to Komarov, what happened with the change in the exchange rate of the ruble, interest rates and inflation, "we now take it very seriously."

In addition, as Komarov said , this Friday, a commission under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin will discuss the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome. According to the plan, construction work should be completed before November 30, 2015. The first launch of a manned spacecraft from the Amur region is scheduled for 2018.