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One of the first statement of a new head of Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkina media could be an announcement of a large shift in the Russian astronautics in the coming years. Kommersant Daily Popovkinovu declaration states that space programs in the coming years require much larger investments of the past, while stating that the bezmalo half of the budget so far poured into piloted Astronautics. Such a situation in which we have a huge cost to launch people into orbit, revolves around the earth and go back in itself is no longer viable, the core is Popovkinove statements. Should piloted astronautics reply with financial or scientific results, then it should be supported, but if the only purpose to send people into space and return them back to Earth, then we need to think seriously about the future of such modes. Russia is now the only nation capable of maintaining a permanent "umbilical relationship" with Issa. In the past five decades, except the U.S. "trip" to the moon we moved further from Earth's orbit. We learned most of the things that are necessary for long-term human missions and stay in space, whether it's a technical or social aspects. Now it's time to move on, or that robots take the lead on our space programs. The project Issa invested nearly 150 billion USD. Her future after the 2020th The bit is questionable when used in this way. Popovkin took over in April after a series of failures Roskosmos led by then chief - Anatoly Perminova. What moves will Popovkin soon run remains to be seen, but cutting down "tourism" flights and taking direction to robotic and scientific objectives is certainly the right thing to which mankind is waiting too long.