 |  Roscosmos talks up backup manned vehicle for Moon without NASA funding
 23 January 2019
Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin has said that NASA
had asked Roscosmos to create a lunar version of the Soyuz spacecraft as a backup
manned space transport system for flights to the Moon. A senior Russian space industry
source told Sputnik that Moscow will develop an ugraded Soyuz version at its own
expense, and no funding from NASA is expected.
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