Roskosmos will create a “Return-MCA-L” spacecraft, designed to deliver animals to the Moon, RIA Novosti reports, referring to the public procurement site.
In the application of the State Corporation, it is noted that through “Return-MCA-L” should be carried out by “medical and biological studies of the joint influence of interplanetary flight factors for living organisms.” Preliminary works on “Return-MCA-L” is planned to be completed in November 2022.
In April, the head of the Rocket and Space Center (RCC) “Progress” Dmitry Baranov said that the Bion-M satellite No. 2 will not redo the “Ark” spacecraft.
In the same month, Deputy Director for Science Institute of Medical Biological Problems (ISBP) RAS Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, commenting on the words of the head of the American company Spacex Ilona Mask about the Mission Mission on Mars, said that “the risk of fatal outcome during distant flights will be proportionally increase. “