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February 11th, 2022
Russia’s Luna-25 Moon lander.
Credit: RSC Energia/Roscosmos
Russia is ready to reactivate its moon exploration agenda, a former Soviet Union enterprise that ended decades ago. The last in the row of pioneering USSR lunar missions was Luna 24 – lobbing back to Earth in 1976 roughly six ounces of near-side collectibles.
The country’s Luna-25 is set to kick-start a sequence of lunar outings that also involves Europe as well as China. A larger plan now being scripted is Russian collaboration with China on building an International Lunar Research Station, intended to be operational by 2035.
For more details, go to my new Space.com story – “Russia aims to rekindle moon program with lunar lander launch this July – Luna 25 will touch down in the moon’s south polar region” – at:
https://www.space.com/russia-rekindle-moon-program-luna-25-launch
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