Russia and the United States confirmed their intentions to organize a joint mission to Venus, said the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Saturday.

"We agreed with the Americans on a joint mission to Venus. Venus has traditionally been considered the Russian planet. It was the Soviet apparatus that landed there. <...> But now we are going to put a mission there, it is called "Venera-D" - a joint Russian-American mission," Rogozin said.

He explained that this joint work will help to simplify this task from the point of view of economics, technology and science.