Head of the rocket-space corporation Energia Vitaly flap told reporters at Baikonur, the Russian proposal for a manned flight to Mars is more effective than the American space agency NASA's research.
The flight to Mars can not be without, but from a cognitive point of view, more interesting is Jupiter, where processes occur in the matter of planetary formation, and - of course - it would be found there" - he stressed. "I, as an engineer, no one could prove what is the need for a flight to the moon. If you fly there and then on to Mars, then we lose too much time, because the technology required for the flight to Mars are more complex and expensive" - explained the flap. "It should not be treated as close to the tasks of prospective purposes. We must immediately put a more far-reaching task, but also Mars may not be the final goal. So we should set a national space programs, that each generation had its own ambitious plans to penetrate the cosmos" - "the head of corporate power. He said that when the experts compared the Russian Energy and U.S. projects manned mission to Mars, it turned out that the much smaller resources, Russia may achieve more. "If we follow the American path, then by 2040 we lose too much time. Nevertheless, in the distant cosmos should fly together" - he added. According Lopota when the director of NASA's Charles Bolden in October stayed at Baikonur, where he became acquainted with the Russian flight program on the Red Planet, he is very liked it.
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