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Even if the USA won the space race against the USSR (with assuming that the Yankees actually visited the moon), then a similar competition between America and modern Russia is still far from completion and is in full swing.
Of course, the most coveted goal for both space powers is the colonization of Mars, but so far both the USA and the Russian Federation have again turned its close attention to the natural satellite of the Earth. And either we either Americans should be the first in this century to send to Selena people.
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The head of “Roskosmos” Dmitry Rogozin, speaking recently in Moscow State University, shared with students plans of the national space agency for the exploration of the moon and even called the date of the breaded astronauts landing there. According to official, this should happen in 2030. State corporation also intends to build on the surface of a natural satellite runway complex and permanent lunar base. So the ambitious project, although it looks very fantastic, but over thousands of experts are already working with him.
According to earlier statements by Roskosmos’s management, the first domestic manned mission to land a man on The moon will last two weeks. Most likely for delivery Russian cosmonauts to Selena will use advanced reusable ship “Federation”, currently under development moment of RSC Energia named after SP Korolev.
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The formation of the crew for the first flight will be carried out until 2021. IN 2023, specialists intend to carry out unmanned launch “Federation” on the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to International Space Station.
It is reported that usually crew preparation for space flight lasts two years, but in this case they will spend on this procedure significantly longer as the journey to the moon becomes unprecedented in its complexity and significance space mission for Russian explorers.
As mentioned above, the US also plans to send to Selena astronauts for the foreseeable future (vice president Michael Pence, for example, officially declared that the Americans were repeating their moonlight mission in 2024). However, NASA, even with help private space companies like SpaceX, yet necessary technologies for such a flight (and maybe never possessed). Thus, our astronauts there is every chance to overtake their American counterparts. We hope that this will happen in the next eleven years.
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