Russia and the United States cooperate to find water on Mars and the Moon

Russia and the United States celebrate 50 years of humanity launching the first satellite into space with a treaty using Russian technology in NASA missions to find water in Mars and the Moon.

NASA Director Michael Griffin, on October 3, signed this cooperation agreement with his Russian counterpart, Russian Anatoly Perminov, director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosKosmos) in Moscow.

Participating in the signing ceremony of this historic cooperation agreement is also the first astronaut to walk in space, a Russian, Alexei Leonov. 50 years ago, on October 4, 1957, the first human satellite named Sputnik was launched from Russian territory.

Despite the drastic race in space exploration since the Cold War to date, Russia and the United States have also been tasked with cooperating with Apollo-Soyuz in 1975 and then the International Space Station (ISS).

Under the October 3 agreement, NASA will use Russian scientific equipment in a hydrogen detection mission, a key component of water on the Moon and Mars. NASA engineers want to use the Moon Exploration Vessel to be launched in October 2008 to determine what resources the closest planet on Earth has to help put a permanent station on the face. moon in the next decade.

The Mars star surface was taken by Opportunity. (Photo: AP)

NASA scientist Gordon Chin told reporters: Russia's "Moon Neutron Detection Device (LEND) will help us identify each location where water can exist ."

A year later, NASA will launch the unmanned Mars Science Research Ship to the Red Planet in 2010 and will be there for two years to analyze the planet's surface. The vessel also used the Russian technology to look for signs of water.

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