TASS opens campaign on ISS

TASS agency first of the world media opens up its permanent missions at the International Space Station (ISS). The Memorandum of Cooperation, which implies the implementation of the joint project of the Agency and Roscosmos, was signed on November 17, General Director of Tass Sergey Mikhailov and Head of the State Corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

The first TASS correspondent in orbit will be the hero of Russia Cosmonaut Roscosmos Alexander Misurnkin. He will talk about life and work at the station, his news can be read on the agency’s information resources, and watch photos and videos on the website and official pages on social networks.

According to Mikhailov, TASS always seeks to be where news occurs.

“We used to be limited to our planet: there are TASS in all regions of Russia and in more than 60 countries, in the coming years their number will grow. We thought that now the subject of our information expansion could be space, and I am very happy That our cooperation with the state corporation “Roscosmos” was so quickly and harmoniously “,” he said. “For us, the invarious honor to consider Russian astronauts by our colleagues, look forward to news and amazing personnel with orbits,” said the general director of TASS.

In turn, Rogozin expressed confidence that the discovery of the Corpoal TASS on the ISS will allow to tell more people about the domestic cosmonautics.

“Special educational project of Roskosmos and TASS aimed at the popularization of Russia’s activities in space. The agency’s readers will be able to learn more about the work of astronauts in orbit, on scientific experiments, the specifics of the space flight. To tell the direct participants in the process – astronauts of Roskosmos, – He noted the head of the state corporation.

Misurnkin will go to space on December 8 on the Soyuz MS-20 ship, together with the Japanese billionaire, Yusaka Maesava and his business assistant Yozo Hirano. Now he is on quarantine. Before the flight on Baikonur, he will be transferred to the certificate of a special correspondent of TASS through the deputy head of the cosmonaut preparation center. Yu.A. Gagarin – commander of the cosmonauts detachment Dmitry Kononenko.

At the moment, the work of the TASS in real time provides almost two thousand employees. Regional information centers in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg, dozens of corpses in the regions of Russia, as well as 63 representative offices of the Agency in 60 countries allow you to quickly receive and disseminate objective information about events in Russia and the world among the widest possible audience. In 16 countries, and now in the orbit of the Earth, TASS correspondents are the only representatives of the Russian media. Daily, the agency produces about 2 thousand posts and about 600-800 photos and videos from their own correspondents in Russia and abroad, forming a holistic and objective picture of events.

/Media reports.