“Development of the moon is now very heavy for either country in the world” – Russian Oil

«Oil of Russia», 29.12.15, Moscow, 19:06
Plans ” Roskosmos “became more mundane

« Roskosmos “refused to fly to the moon. This follows from the updated program of the corporation for the next 10 years, the newspaper “Izvestia”. According to the newspaper, the document excluded from the most costly projects to develop the satellite. In particular, “Roskosmos” intends to suspend a lunar base, and the development of the space station spacesuit. This allows corporations to save on “the manned program” almost 90 billion rubles. Refusal of the lunar project – a logical step in this situation, said a member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics Andrey Ionov.

«According to the most approximate estimates, the lunar project, the first phase – is of the order of 150-200 billion, Mars Project, a mission to Mars, will require about $ 300 billion. It is clear that these funds in the current situation of reach of any one country in the world, even the United States. What were laid off these programs – it is an objective reality. The state as an investor rightly reduces the money. Even if a lot of money was not the fact that they have to spend it on this, “- doubted Ionov.

About Russian plans to colonize the moon last spring, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. However, a year later, he said that the economic crisis has changed the priorities of the government.

April 2014: “The Moon – no intermediate point on the course, it is self-sufficient and even a goal. It is hardly appropriate to make 10-20 missions to the Moon and beyond, all rushed to fly to Mars or asteroids. This process has a beginning but no end: we’re going to go to the moon forever ».

August 2015:” Now we can not afford the expense of ambition, even cosmic, space undermine the economic interests of the country. We are now in a difficult situation. We need money to take care and put the ruble so that it brought more than the ruble. We need to determine the order, why do we need the moon or to Mars ».

« Roskosmos “while not abandoning automatic lunar exploration program, this representative of the state-owned corporation, said” RIA Novosti “. In particular, it is planned to launch lunar rover and the study of soil satellite. However, even these projects have already been postponed several times, said the chief researcher at the Institute of Space Research Institute Oleg Weisberg.

«Getting these automatic flight was planned somewhere in 2013, it is now postponed. It would not be desirable to further postponement of the case: it is important from the point of view of science, and in terms of the prestige of our country, and in terms of preparing future manned missions to the moon. The plan should be fairly consistent, ranging from research to develop the concept. First you need to understand very clearly where the most effective would be to place the base on the Moon, there will be sufficient resources “, – said Weisberg on air” Kommersant FM ».

In the next 10 years to finance the Federal Space the program budget will be spent about 1.4 trillion rubles. This is almost two times more than in the past decade.

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