Russia’s Federation

Federal Space Agency, (“Roskosmos”)

Cosmonaut Core & the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Zvezdnyy Gorodok (Star City)

Russia ’s Cosmonaut core that from its start in the cold war era of the early 1960’s until recently was divided between Military Pilots as well as S. P. Korolev, Rocket Space Corporation Energiya, and the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences has now changed. During April 2010 it was decided that the Cosmonaut Training Center and its Cosmonaut core would be under the control of the Russian, Federal Space Agency making it one entity instead of three entities.