Hungary Selecting Candidates for Second Space Flight in Country’s History

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Hungary Selecting Candidates for Second Space Flight in Country's History
Hungary Selecting Candidates for Second Space Flight in Country's History

Africa-Press – Cape verde. Hungary is screening candidates for the country’s second space flight in a process that could see up to four astronauts selected, Hungary’s first space explorer, Bertalan Farkas, told Sputnik on Friday.

He also said that Hungary was developing a science program to enable its astronauts to perform the space flights not as space tourists but as qualified specialists, and expressed the hope that cooperation opportunities with Russian space corporation Roscosmos would be established.

Hungary launched its first space flight to the Salyut 6 space station as part of the Soviet Soyuz 36 crewed space mission on May 26, 1980. The crew, which included Farkas and Russian cosmonaut Valery Kubasov, were the first to visit the long-duration Soyuz 35 crew.

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