the New head of Roscosmos Igor Komarov intends to adjust the space program in the country, which may result in a reduction in its budget of hundreds of billions of Russian roubles. This formed a special working group that will review and update the plans for the development of the most ambitious and expensive part of the cosmic plan.

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the New head of Roscosmos Igor Komarov intends to adjust the space program in the country, which may result in a reduction in its budget of hundreds of billions of Russian roubles. This formed a special working group that will review and update the plans for the development of the most ambitious and expensive part of the cosmic plan.

the Prospects of the Russian manned space flight in different formats are discussed in the last time regularly, write "news". Intermediate outcome of these discussions was the declared strategic goal of landing Russians on the moon in the years 2030-2035. Running the previous administration under the direction of Oleg Ostapenko the program was inscribed development costs lunar excavator and cable-handling vessel, required for arrangement on the surface of the moon inhabited database.

On the development of super-heavy rocket, which is only needed for interplanetary expeditions, Roscosmos this spring in the project PCF 2016-25 laid 214,6 billion rubles (about $3.2 billion at the exchange rate on 9 February 2015). It was also planned to build a missile payload 160-180 tons to send to the moon manned spacecraft together with the landing module. The launch of this class from scratch will cost more than 1 trillion rubles (about $15.1 billion). However, experts believe that even for heavy media capacity of about 80-90 tons impossible to find a commercial load.

"Alternative [superheavy carrier - Approx. Onliner.by] can be a severe variant of the "Angara" - orbit loads into orbit in several stages, with subsequent Assembly directly in orbit", said one of the participants of the working group. The group also believes that the revision of the existing space ships are cheaper than creating new ones.

"To determine the prospects for manned space flight, you must first answer the question of why the state to Fund manned space flight", - I am sure the member-correspondent of the Russian Academy of cosmonautics named. Tsiolkovsky Andrew Jonas.