MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The heavy-class Angara-A5V carrier rocket, which Roscosmos (the Federal Space Agency) plans to use in a lunar project, could be created in about 6-8 years' time, Andrei Kalinovsky, the Khrunichev space center's acting CEO, told reporters on Tuesday.
"The work to create such a carrier rocket will take time. Ground infrastructure will have to be built for the oxygen-hydrogen booster. So the tentative deadline is 2012-23," he said.