Russian Federal Space Agency
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| Acronym | RFSA |
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| Owner | Russia |
| Established | 25 February 1992 (formerly the 1931–91 Soviet space program) |
| Headquarters | Shchepkin Street 42, Moscow |
| Primary spaceport |
Baikonur Cosmodrome |
| Administrator | Igor Komarov |
| Budget |  186.5 billion rubles (2015) |
| Website | roscosmos.ru |
The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Russian: Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности), commonly known as Roscosmos (Russian: Роскосмос), is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of Russia and general aerospace research.
The Corporation was established on the basis of the now-defunct Federal Space Agency on December 28, 2015. Roscosmos was previously known as the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Russian: Российское авиационно-космическое агентство, Rossiyskoe aviatsionno-kosmicheskoe agentstvo, commonly known as Rosaviakosmos).
The headquarters of Roscosmos are located in Moscow, while the main Mission Control space center is located in the nearby city of Korolev. The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center is in Star City. The Launch facilities used are Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (with most launches taking place there, both manned and unmanned), and being built in the Russian Far East in Amur Oblast.
The current Director since January 2015 is Igor Komarov. In 2015 the Russian government merged Roscosmos with the United Rocket and Space Corporation, the re-nationalized Russian space industry, to create the Roscosmos State Corporation.
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