Russia is joining a new space race dealing with future space flight manned programs that is currently emerging in the world among leading space powers, head of Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday
KOROLYOV (Moscow region) (Pakistan Point news / Sputnik - 22nd March, 2019) Russia is joining a new space race dealing with future space flight manned programs that is currently emerging in the world among leading space powers, head of Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday."Now we are entering a new kind of competition with leading space powers that concerns future manned [space flight] programs, including deep-space ones," Rogozin said at a meeting with members of the United Russia party parliamentary group at the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia.
He added that he had recently discussed with the head of the Russian academy of Sciences, Alexander Sergeyev, the payloads that Russia would have to create to explore the Moon.
Rogozin also invited the lawmakers to attend one of the next manned launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
International space agencies are currently agreeing on the details of the proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) project, which envisages the creation of a lunar-orbit space station. Under previous chief Igor Komarov, Roscosmos signed an agreement with NASA on the joint development of a lunar-orbit station. However, later, Rogozin said that Russia could not afford to participate in the creation of the station in the role of the "outrunner." According to foreign media reports, Russia did not attend the last meeting of the project's participants.
At the same time, Russia's own lunar program is now being developed. The scientific and technical council of Roscosmos held the first major meeting on this issue with the Russian Academy of Sciences on November 28, 2018. In February, Rogozin reported that the concept of the Lunar research and exploration program would be presented to the Russian Security Council and reviewed within six months.
