Putin Open to Foreign Investment in Troubled Russian Spaceport

  • Russia wants to attract investors to Vostochny cosmodrome
  • New $3 billion space center is behind schedule and over budget
A payload is launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

Photographer: Valery Sharifulin/Getty Images

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President Vladimir Putin’s push to attract foreign investors to Russia has now moved to the final frontier -- space.

Russia’s ready to invite foreign partners to help develop its new Vostochny Cosmodrome, Putin told delegates Thursday at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.