Dmitry Rogozin: Russia creates a 150-ton “truck” to fly into space – RSUTE

recently appeared in the Russian media rumors about the intention of the Russian Space Agency to abandon the lunar program is an exaggeration. This was stated by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin during his interview to the channel “Russia 24″.

Russia is working on a super-heavy rocket, the first stage of the rocket which will “Phoenix”. In an interview with TV channel “Russia 24″ said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

He stressed that the establishment of the missile in the new space program has already begun. Rogozin said that the delivery of goods a large mass of the Russian space industry requires real “trucks”, whereas now there are armed with “jeep” “Angara”. So dump truck, according to Rogozin, will be extra heavy missile.

«Now we create it on a completely new technological basis, and in the new federal space program has laid the creation of missiles” Phoenix “, which will be the first step in the creation of superheavy missiles “, – Rogozin said.

Load this space truck can exceed 150 tonnes.

The journalists reported the Russian Federal Space Agency plans to save budget abandon manned missions to the moon. It expects that it will save 88, 5 billion rubles. Earlier, the head said, the budget was found funds for exploration of the Moon. However, as the newspaper notes, the spacecraft, which in future will be able to fly to the moon, will continue under construction. This is the main priority of the Russian space industry.

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