Rogozin Gives Roasting To Roscosmos Employees, Threatens To Withhold Bonuses

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 31st October, 2018) Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin has recently harshly blasted his employees at a meeting, threatening to withhold bonus payments, a video obtained by Sputnik showed.

According to one of the participants of the meeting, it took place "last week" and concerned "Soyuz" issues. He declined to provide any further details.

"I literally forced you to sign the contract at the beginning of July this year. How many months have passed since that? You continue to look back at each other ... Listen, guys, you can't go on working like that � you waste three months for nothing. Comrades, I forbid you to further engage in [useless] correspondence, you will work in a ... [new] mode. It means, first of all, that only authorized representatives of the director general, or director general himself, must attend the meeting. Secondly, [they should come] with a position already worked out, and, third, with the powers and responsibility to make changes [to documents] during the meeting," Rogozin said, addressing the Roscosmos employees.

He also threatened to withhold bonus payments if he finds out that "someone screwed up there."

"You have already blown [a lot of] time, haven't you? No [additional] funds, we will not delay anything until next year. If I find out that someone screwed up there, everyone will be deprived of all bonus payments with all the consequences," he warned.

The meeting comes as a special commission of Roscosmos is investigating the recent Soyuz launch incident. On October 11, the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle failed to take the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft with the new crew of the International Space Station (ISS) into space. Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague managed to eject in a rescue capsule and make an emergency landing in Kazakhstan unharmed. This became the first failure of a manned space launch in modern Russian history.

Sergey Krikalev, the executive director of manned space programs at Roscosmos, said earlier on Wednesday that the incident had been caused by malfunctioning of the detector that signals separation of the rocket's first and second stages.