“The new light ship will be developed according to the principles of efficiency and serialization, and therefore all systems of the lunar ship will not be in demand in the new R&D (experimental design work – ed.)” said Yelchaninov. The appearance of the new ship will be different.
As Yelchaninov adds, “they would conceive of a manned spacecraft without considering other components of the flight to the moon.” Therefore, the target program was split into a group of separate tasks.
In April 2022, Dmitry Rogozin, then head of Roscosmos, said that plans to launch a manned mission to the moon have lost their relevance. Recall that the development of the Orel manned spacecraft has been carried out in Russia since 2009. The first test launch is scheduled for December 2023. But then plans changed.
Source: Ferra
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