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The Russian government has allocated 4 billion rubles for the creation of a launch vehicle and a manned Soyuz spacecraft

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Glavkosmos is an operator in the field of space tourism

Moscow. September 16. INTERFAX-The Russian government will allocate more than 4 billion rubles to Roscosmos to create a Soyuz-2 launch vehicle by 2024.1a" and the Soyuz MS ship in the interests of Glavkosmos.

The corresponding order was published on the official Internet portal of legal information on Thursday.

"To direct in 2021 the budget allocations provided to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation under the subsection "Research and use of outer space" of the section "National Economy" of the classification of budget expenditures in the amount of 4412660 thousand rubles for the expenses of the state corporation for space activities "Roscosmos"," the document says.

It states that these funds are allocated to provide budget investments to Glavkosmos to create "no later than 2024 the Soyuz-2.1 a launch vehicle, as well as the Soyuz MS manned transport vehicle."

On June 1, the head of Glavkosmos, Dmitry Loskutov, told Interfax that the company plans to order two Soyuz manned spacecraft for future space tourists, they will be ready by the end of 2023.

Earlier, the rocket and Space corporation Energia reported that the board of directors of the corporation approved the conclusion of an agreement with Glavkosmos for the "manufacture and supply of two Soyuz MS manned transport ships". The estimated price will be 5.06 billion rubles.

On June 25, 2019, the state corporation Roscosmos announced that the rocket and space corporation Energia and the American company Space Adventures signed a contract for the delivery of two space tourists to the ISS in 2023.

In November 2019, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, announced that the state corporation had ordered the production of two additional Soyuz rockets for commercial launches from Energia. It was reported that the "tourist" version of the ship will be converted to control one person.

In December 2019, it became known that the cost of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft flight for space tourists will amount to 2.5 billion rubles. This amount was mentioned in the documentation of the ship's developer-RSC Energia.

The state corporation reported that Roscosmos and Space Adventure have been cooperating in the field of space tourism since 2001, when the first space tourist Denis Tito flew into orbit.

The enterprises of the industry have already started creating a manned transport spacecraft "Soyuz MS" and a launch vehicle "Soyuz-2" for the flight of tourists into space.

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