Roscosmos will develop a spacecraft to send animals to the moon

The new development, according to the documentation, will help conduct medical and biological research in joint

influence of interplanetary flight factors on living organisms. 

Analysis of problematic issues and prospectsusing the new generation space complex “Vozvrat-MKA-L” with a return vehicle for delivering animals and other biological objects to the vicinity of the Moon (Lagrange point L1) and conducting medical and biological studies of the joint influence of interplanetary flight factors on living organisms in experiments with animals and others biological objects. 

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The complex called "Return-MKA-L" must deliver animals to the Lagrange point in the vicinity of the moon, and then return them to Earth.

The work must be completed before November 15, 2022, and by November 15, 2023, the design appearance of the spacecraft should already be determined. The timing of the launch of the spacecraft has not been announced.

Other devices, already being developed by order of Roskosmos, are supposed to deliver mice, lizards, insects, plants and bacteria into space and back.

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