Plans are zooming ahead for Russian scientists to send 2 lunar rovers to the Moon. Even more exciting, they are planning landing stations there after 2020.
Digital Journal reported in March that Russia was planning to expand its space program with visits to the Moon and a Mars landing by 2030.Plans are now being made to study the polar regions and to eventually create a permanent, manned base on the Moon after 2020.According to RIA Novosti, emphasis is being placed on the poles due to a discovery of ice, quoting a leaked draft of a space research roadmap, which had been prepared by the Russian Academy of Sciences. They also wish to study the gas-dust exosphere of the Moon, take soil samples and establish the best area to build a lunar base.... read full article.
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