Russian Space Agency to Scale Back Spending

Russia will revise its space program, the national space agency said Tuesday, after a newspaper reported that ambitious moon exploration plans and other projects may be facing massive funding cuts. Several Russian government ministries were engaged in revising the space program up to 2025, Roscosmos, the federal space agency, said in a written statement to Reuters. It did not give details. But the Roscosmos statement and a report in the Izvestia newspaper suggested Russia's...

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