Russia announced the race to build the Moon space station

Preparing to enter the third decade of the 21st century, humanity once again returns to the Moon. Who will reach the finish this time?

According to RIA Novosti news agency, Evgeniy Mikrin - Russia's chief engineer of manned complexes, proposed to build Russia's first national space station on Moon's orbit in 2025.

According to the document "The Roadmap for the Implementation of the Moon Program" presented by Mr. Mikrin at a conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station, which took place last week in Moscow, the Moon Station space base module will be launched. the end of 2025, ie 7 years.

An idea of ​​designing a space station on the Moon's orbit - (Photo: CBC).

In the following year, ie 2026, the spaceship from Earth will continue to carry modules - landing so that astronauts can land on the nearest satellite surface of the globe.

Earlier, Russia planned to build a moon station between 2030 and 2035. Thus, the announcement of Evgeniy Mikrin was about revealing the specific time proposed and much earlier than originally planned.

According to the architect General Mikrin, the Moon Station consists of several assembled modules, these modules will be tested in advance on Earth orbit during the period when Russia completed its contribution to the International Space Station. .

Particularly the base module will be designed based on the main module of the International Station with docking stations, power modules and push modules.

According to RIA, leader of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) - Mr. Dmitri Rogozin, announced that in the next 3 months, the agency will shake hands with the Russian Academy of Sciences outlining the " guideline" for the Moon program. based on the contribution of scientific opinions.

Elsewhere, in the framework of the memorandum of understanding between Roscosmos and the US Aerospace Agency (NASA), the design of the Moon Space Station under the "Deep Space Gateway" project is also underway. parallel.