Russia Picks Contractors For New Crewed Launcher

摘要

The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roskosmos, awarded a pair of contracts totaling nearly 1.2 billion rubles ($37 million) to begin designing a next-generation spaceship and rocket capable of carrying cosmonauts to the Moon.rnRoskosmos announced April 2 that it selected Samara, Russia-based TsSKB Progress over the Krunichev State Research and Production Center of Moscow to design the Rus-M rocket, a liquid-fueled vehicle Russia intends to operate from the Vostochny Cosmodrome launch facility it plans to build in far southeastern Russia.