Deputy PM says space agency head to resign due to takeoff delays
According to Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, the space agency head of the country will be resigning after seven years in the job because of takeoff delays that annoyed top officials.
Sergei Ivanov, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, stated that Anatoly Perminov, the head of Roskosmos, will be resigning as he had reached the age limit of 65 permitted for state officials and involved the alteration will come this April.
The Russian News Agencies said that Perminov is already 65 years old and according to the law in Russia, no state official can stay on job once is reached the limit age allowed. Ivanov also stated that whether it is April 15, 20 or 30, he does not see any difference at all, adding that in any possibility Charles Bolden, the administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will have a matching part to meet when he goes to Russia next week.
In spite of the promises that the alterations is because he is old enough, the new of the departure of Perminov comes at an unusual period as the country plans to celebrate the half century of Yuri Gagarin as he became the first man in the outer space on April 12.
However, it comes on the lists of one of the most awkward mistakes in the space program of Russia in previous times, the unsuccessful takeoff last December of three navigation satellites that bumped into the ocean of Hawaii. The newest manned takeoff of Russia for the International Space Station before the anniversary of Gagarin was also postponed from its scheduled takeoff date of March 30 because of some technical difficulties.
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