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Russia ready to design spacesuits for lunar missions

MOSCOW, October 18. /TASS/. A spacesuit for work on the Moon’s surface can be designed using the Orlan vest as a model, CEO and Chief Designer of the Zvezda Research and Production Enterprise Sergei Pozdnyakov told TASS on Tuesday.
The Zvezda Enterprise does not see "any major problems with the development of lunar spacesuits," he said.
"The Orlan spacesuit can be used as the basis to solve the problem with the mobility of the leg wrappings," Pozdnyakov explained.
The development of such a spacesuit was stipulated by the federal space program for 2016-2025 until it was sequestered, he said.
"Now no such works are prescribed in any of the documents and we have not received any official requests on this matter," the enterprise’s chief designer said.
The Central Research Institute for Machine-Building (or TsNIImash), which is the main research institute of Russia’s State Space Corporation (Roscomsos), said in spring that Russia planned from 2025 to annually carry out one or two manned flights to the Moon. They are expected to be carried aboard promising spacecraft Federatsiya.
Russia also considers organizing a lunar base, including as part of international cooperation.
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