Moscow. November 11. INTERFAX - Roscosmos has signed a contract with the head scientific institute TsNIIMash for the development of the lunar program and the concept of the orbital station for 1.5 billion rubles, follows from the data of the public procurement portal.
The contract was signed between Roscosmos State Corporation and TsNIIMash JSC within the framework of the research work "Applied research of problematic issues of the implementation of manned flights to the Moon, the creation of key elements and technologies, including biomedical areas, ensuring the safe stay and work of astronauts in lunar orbit and on the surface of the Moon in part of the work of 2022-2025". According to the portal, the contract price is 1,475 billion rubles.
On September 23, Roscosmos announced a tender for conducting research work on the lunar program for 1.7 billion rubles.
On May 22, the executive director of Roscosmos for science, Alexander Bloshenko, told Interfax that the implementation of the lunar program with the superheavy Yenisei rocket will require about 1.7 trillion rubles, 900 billion will be needed to create a payload and manned vehicles themselves.
The payload, he noted, includes several Eagle spacecraft, a lunar landing module, lunar rovers, lunar spacesuits, scientific equipment and other equipment.
Also, according to him, 400 billion rubles will be required to deliver a person to the Moon using Angara rockets, excluding payload.
On March 9, Roscosmos reported that Russia and China signed a memorandum on the creation of an international scientific lunar station.
In January, Roscosmos announced the withdrawal of the Russian side from the American lunar Gateway project.
On October 19, 2020, Rogozin tweeted that the Russian state Corporation and the Chinese National Space Administration held a videoconference on bilateral cooperation, "including the lunar exploration program."
In July 2020, Rogozin reported on negotiations with the Chinese side on the creation of a joint lunar base. According to him, the project can also be open to other countries, including the United States.
