Roscosmos will spend 1.7 billion rubles on research for the lunar program

Roscosmos will spend 1.7 billion rubles on research for the lunar program. The state corporation announced the corresponding tender in September 2021.

According to Vedomosti, citing materials on the public procurement website, Roscosmos is looking for a contractor to study the issue of organizing manned flights to the moon, including landing a person on the surface of an Earth satellite. The contract will include the creation of key elements and technologies, including the medical and biological direction, ensuring the safe stay and work of astronauts in near-moon orbit and on the surface of the moon.

Roscosmos will spend 1.7 billion rubles to prepare a manned flight to the moon

It is planned to begin scientific and technical work no earlier than  January 1, 2022 , to end -  November 14, 2025 .

Also, public procurement materials report  on plans to develop a technical appearance and tactical and technical requirements  for a spacesuit for  extracurricular activities  and on the surface of the moon, vehicles  on the surface of the satellite and "reusable means of lunar manned transport infrastructure."

A separate item is the implementation of the roadmap for managing risks to human health and performance during the development of the moon.

Earlier, the executive director of Roscosmos for science, Alexander Bloshenko, said that the implementation of the lunar program with a super-heavy rocket will require about 1.7 trillion rubles, of which 900 billion rubles will be spent on creating the payload and manned means themselves.

The payload, he said, includes several Eagle ships, a lunar take-off and landing module, moonwalks, lunar spacesuits, scientific equipment and other equipment. To deliver a person to the moon using Angara rockets  will require 400 billion rubles , excluding the payload.^[1]

The Russian lunar program is designed for the period until 2040. By September 2021, it is not clear whether work will be completed on a super-heavy lunar rocket, which, as originally planned, was supposed to provide regular expeditions to the moon.

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