Penalties met moon program

Why because the sanctions had to push Russia’s landing on the moon and what is not in the satellites of the Soviet Union and the United States of machinery, ” Newspaper ” He said the head of the Department of Nuclear Planetary Space Research Institute RAS, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Igor Mitrofanov. Ndash; Igor G. resident in the Department name ndash; Nuclear Planetary ndash; It can cause confusion and even fear. In recent years, you have created three scientific instruments, working on the moon and Mars, but as you said in the first part of the interview is a joint project of NASA in the coming years is not expected, what are the major future projects? Ndash; Now I did and many children did not only manage the media space, such as DAN aboard the NASA rover Curiosity, not only to spend a lot of time and effort to the new equipment, but also to deal with a Russian lunar program for future projects. We believe that if Russia wants to remain in future space power and engage in space exploration research, not only in practice, it is our closest overseas is the moon, and it is quite achieved abroad. And so we are now with our fellow Lavochkin participate in the design of two large automatic landing craft near the south pole of the moon. We think it will be very interesting scientific research, which largely determines the future development of space.