Roscosmos has prepared an updated version of the Federal Space Program of Russia for 2016-2025 and sent it for approval to the ministries. Unfortunately, the new project will not please us: as it became known to journalists, almost all work on manned flights to a natural satellite of the Earth were deleted from the FKP.
The new version of the FKP was prepared after a significant reduction in funding for the space industry, which was announced in November this year. If we compare the new version of the program with the previous one, one can notice the absence of projects "Creation of a lunar take-off and landing complex" (ROC PPTK-2), "Creation of a lunar spacesuit" (ROC LB-Lskaf) "Creation of a lunar base" (ROC LB stage 1), "Creation of a robotic support system on the Moon" (ROC LB-Robot), "Creation of a lunar orbital station" (ROC LOS stage 1). As a result, the budget allocated for manned flights has decreased by more than 20 percent compared to the April version of the document to 329.7 billion rubles.
Due to the cancellation of the lunar manned program, additional activities related to it were also deleted from the project of the Federal Space Program. Thus, the project of the oxygen-hydrogen interorbital tug MOB-KBTK has disappeared from the chapter "Spacecraft Launch Facilities". Earlier it was planned to use it to deliver a spacecraft with astronauts to orbit a natural satellite of the Earth.
It is worth noting that the development of the spacecraft itself for a flight to the moon will continue, although here, too, the budget has been cut by 8 and a half billion rubles compared to the FKP-25 project presented in April.
Based on materials from izvestia.ru
Earlier, Roskosmos was going to work on the lunar base in 2018.