Posted on 09/07/2020 5:00:31 PM PDT by Libloather
Russia has set its sights on the moon as it prepares to send a lunar lander into space next year.
"The Luna-25 space project opens a long-term Russian lunar program, which includes missions to study the moon from orbit and surface, the collection and return of lunar soil to Earth, as well as, in the future, the construction of a visited lunar base and full-scale development of our satellite," a statement from Roscosmos officials says, according to Scientific American.
The outlet reported that Russia is working in a partnership with the European Space Agency. The launch is slated for October 2021.
While the former Soviet Union never planted human feet on the moon, it did achieve a number of other accomplishments according to Scientific American.
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Other nations, including the U.S., are involved in moon-related efforts. NASA plans to send humans to the moon, including the first woman, through the Artemis program.
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Maybe we have one not mentioned yet and can beat them there...again...that would be stellar...pun intended.
Been there, done that.
WTH is THIS? This is news?
What? The Russians are how many years behind? 50 some?
Have ‘em spiffy up our flag while they’re there.
“are involved in moon-related efforts..”
Our efforts, the Artemis program, is not really for efforts to study and explore the moon. It is a precursor for mars operations. They are practicing living on the moon for a couple of days to learn how so they can survive on mars. And they are selecting landing locations consistent with the south pole of both.
rwood
I have to say that the moon sounds like an appropriate place to send a lunar lander.
Sure they are. I don’t think it will happen.
Trying to get to that obelisk before we do.. hope when they touch it , it frys them..
They're also going to land cosmonauts on Mars in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, or 2021.
Beat me too it. “Hey, Ivan, check out the Stars And Stripes while you’re up there.
I only learned recently that at the end of the 1960s, the Russians had a rocket around the size of the Saturn V, that could have sent men to the moon. Called the N-1, it was tested four times, and soon after each launch, the rocket blew up or crashed.
Don’t they have to get our permission first since the Moon is US territory?
The first test it didn’t have an after launch explosion, it went up (well, technically it had lifted off) while still on the pad and took out that entire launch pad. Korolev’s plan was to make two launches in quick succession, one to put the landing vehicle into orbit around the Moon, the other to put two cosmonauts into a similar orbit.
There was nothing in the mass budget to permit an airlock, so the lone ‘naut to have made the landing would have had to make an untethered space walk over to the lander, open the hatch, get in, power up, descend and land, plant the flag, ascend to orbit, make another untethered space walk to the crew vehicle, and the two ‘nauts would have returned to Earth.
When the N1 blew the first time, the USSR balked at rebuilding the destroyed pad, so that is probably what marks the abandonment of their lunar program.
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