In the future, the Moon will be a launch pad for deep space, after Luna-28, Russia and China will move on to the «possibility» of a manned visit to the Moon and the construction of a lunar base, the head told reporters » Roskosmos» Yury Borisov.
«I think that in the future the Moon will be a launch pad for the exploration of deep space, distant planets,» said Borisov.
The Soyuz 2.1b rocket from the first almost 50 years, the domestic lunar station «Luna-25» was launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome at 2.11 Moscow time. After 9 minutes, the Fregat upper stage with the Luna-25 station separated from the third stage of the rocket and entered low Earth orbit.
After the launch, the head of Roscosmos told reporters that «Luna -26» will be launched in 2027, Luna-27 — in 2028, and Luna-28 — after 2030.
«These four missions are a complex of automatic exploration of the Moon, and after that with colleagues from China, we will move on to the next phase — the possibility of a manned visit to the moon and the construction of a lunar base,» Borisov said.
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