Moscow, Mar 4 (Sputnik): The construction of the first Russian private spaceport in the Nizhny Novgorod Region has stalled over bureaucratic obstacles, CEO of the CosmoCourse company Pavel Pushkin told Sputnik.
“The suborbital project has stalled, details on the spaceport are not being coordinated. We have worked on many details concerning the equipment, but we have suspended the work under such conditions,” Pushkin said.
He pointed out that the company had reached an agreement with the government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region a year ago before any accords on sanitary zones around the future spaceport.
According to Pushkin, the company prepared a report on these zones and sent it to the regional department of the Rospotrebnadzor consumer rights protection watchdog, which directed the document to the Federal Medical-Biological Agency, while the latter submitted it to the federal office of the Rospotrebnadzor.
“We have not received any answer,” Pushkin added.
Kosmokurs received a license for carrying out its space projects from the Russian Roscosmos state space corporation in 2017. The company plans to offer tourists 15-minute flights within a group of six people. The tourists will be able to stay in zero gravity for five to six minutes, moving freely inside the cabin. The company planned to open the private spaceport in the Nizhny Novgorod Region in 2023.(UNI)