The Federal Space Agency (Russian: Союзное космическое агентство [СКА], Soyuznoye kosmichyeskoye agyebtstvo [SKA]), colloquially known as Soyuzcosmos (Союзкосмос, Soyuzkosmos, lit. "Unionspace"), is a government agency of the Soviet Union which is responsible for the Soviet space program an general aerospace research. The agency was formally established in early 1992 by President Mikhail Gorbachev as part of the ongoing decentralization of the USSR.