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It seems that today the pace in space, and in particular the moon, race sets China. His latest achievements, such as landing module with a lunar rover on the back of the earth’s satellite, excited all the world space agencies and first of all European.
This can be judged if only because ESA suddenly started talking about manned flights to the moon, although initially this international the organization did not set the task of launching astronauts into space and created only as a research project to study outer space.
However, today the agency’s press service reports that ESA started testing modern tools and electronic funds needed for manned lunar missions as part of the new Pangea-X programs. For this purpose, an already selected group of astronauts arrived on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, so that here, in conditions close to real (volcanic landscapes of the island are difficult distinguish from lunar), work out a system of comfortable movement people in spacesuits equipped with the necessary equipment.
As part of this program, the latest systems are also tested. connections so that astronauts arriving on the moon can constantly be under the control of the earth control center.
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It seems that moon fever is once again taking over the world. But the United States, how always want to be ahead of the rest, because for them like manned missions seem to have passed the stage. True it’s nothing did not give America and only made her endlessly make excuses for “moon bloopers.” Nevertheless, the US leadership for some reason believes that Now the main thing for them is to send astronauts to Mars. But because statement by Donald trump that he is ready to allocate any amount of money so that until the end of his presidency the Americans stepped on the surface of the Red Planet, no one was particularly surprised. Moreover, between the word and deed, as they say, the distance huge size. However, apparently, NASA has long been preparing to a manned Martian mission, and America’s private companies, for example SpaceX Ilona Mask, only stir up public interest in society finding out whether people are ready to fly to Mars (even with non-refundable condition). As it turned out, such cosmic romantics in abound in the world …
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