TASS office aboard ISS resumes its work

ISS, March 19. /TASS special correspondent Oleg Artemyev/. The TASS news office aboard the Internaitonal Space Station (ISS) resumed its work early on Saturday, led by TASS special correspondent Oleg Artemyev, who is also the commander of the ISS Expedition 67. During the entire 195-day expedition, he will report about life and work, experiments and trials aboard the orbital outpost and share photos and videos from space. "I am very glad to accept this relay’s baton from Alexander Misurkin and if speaking about my feelings, I should say that we will continue doing our work in addition to reporting for your news agency," Artemyev said during an online news conference organized by TASS on Thursday. "In other words, we have been previously reporting about the work of the station sharing the news on the social network platforms of Roscomos [the Russian Space Agency]," the cosmonaut said. "We will continue sharing the news with all of you." On November 17, 2021, Russia’s world-renowned TASS news agency and the State Space Corporation Roscosmos signed a memorandum of cooperation, which stipulated establishing a TASS news office aboard the ISS. Under the agreement, Roscosmos cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Alexander Misurkin was selected to be the first TASS correspondent in space. Read more