This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor. The Cosma Jom. The most famous place on planet Earth for the rest of this century and into the rest of the

millennium. This is where it begins. The cosmodrome launching men into space

once upon a time, then men men and women and now these many decades

responsible for carrying the load of to and from the ISS except the headline

Kazakhstan seizure of Russian space assets threatens the Soyuz 5 rocket.

Subhead Russia has spent nearly a billion dollars on the development of the new Soyuz 5 rocket. To unpack all this, I welcome Anatoly Zach of the Russian

Space Web, a subscription site I highly recommend. it totally diagrams and explains very carefully, the most famous

manspace program ever.

And right now the puzzle about Kazakhstan, an independent state once upon a time part of the

Soviet Union in Central Asia, but now an independent state with oil wealth and natural gas

wealth and enormous resources not many people vast territory

and that territory now claims by Canor Cosmodrome or not and a totally a very good evening to you. Can you clarify what this means for the

cosmodrome for its operations for its plans to continue to develop? Good evening.

Hello John.

Yes.

So let's first of all, let's clarify that so far that issue with impounding assets of Roscosmos is only concerned hardware and facilities related to Soyuz 5 rocket.

This is a next generation vehicle for commercial and application space.

It's not human space flight related project.

So all the launches which use Soyuz rockets which go to the International Space Station, support

human space flight program.

As far as we know, they are not affected at all. So all these activities continue and we do not foresee right now nobody sees any issues with this activities. But the future project, the one for the next generation

rocket, yes, this looks like right now on ice and it seems to be even though nobody declared that so far but it looks like

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