It will soon be possible in Russia to "study to become a cosmonaut." The Moscow Aviation Institute is opening enrollment for Russia's first training program to prepare for entering the cosmonaut corps. The project, which is supported by the Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and, accordingly, by Roscosmos, currently only works for students and employees of the institute.
MAI and Roscosmos are currently working together to create the ROS, and when it becomes operational, MAI will assist with the station's operation. Therefore, personnel who will enter cosmonautics in five, ten, or fifteen years with a long-term perspective are very much needed.
Applications will be accepted starting September 1 of this year. More than twenty different experts from MAI and the CTC will select students and employees of the institute for admission to the corps based on over 100 criteria. Candidates for training will have to pass special tests. The most successful will undergo ten months of training—until the end of June 2025.
Earlier, in an interview with "First Technical," cosmonaut Sergei Korsakov noted that Russia will need many specialists for the development and exploration of space, flights to the Moon, and other planets.
The technology and methods of cosmonaut training should evolve in such a way as to prepare a narrow specialist in their field for flight in two to three months. Not a universal cosmonaut who controls the ship, performs experiments, and makes other decisions, but a specialist who will solve other tasks. For example, a physicist, geologist, or even a person of a creative profession—an actor, a blogger. To send them into space, where they perform their tasks, then return and live their normal, ordinary life.
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