Russia plans to bring people back to the Moon

The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is planning to build a high-tech base on the moon starting in 2024.

Russia restarted the program to bring people to the moon

Accordingly, this base will be built suitable living environment for people, science and technology laboratory, airport for launching and landing for spacecraft and even an observatory.

Astronaut.

Roscosmos has had a rather complicated past in conquering Earth's satellites. In the race with the American Apollo, the former Soviet self-propelled ships landed on the Moon's surface. However, a series of missile launchers later failed to bring Soviet missions to the Moon.

In the end, Roscosmos decided that the Moon program cost a lot of money but had too many risks and decided to end the program.

Luna 25 self-propelled ship model of Russia.

Currently, however, Roscosmos is restoring this program and is expected to launch Luna 25 self-propelled ships to the Moon to explore future Moon base construction. Roscosmos revealed that Luna 25 will be launched to the Moon by 2024 here.

Russian engineers have completed the fabrication of Luna 25. It is expected that the Russian self-propelled vessel will carry 8 cameras to navigate, photograph and track the drills Luna 25 performs on the surface of the Face. moon.

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According to information from Roscosmos, Luna 25 will run on electricity provided by a nuclear fuel cell using radioactive material plutonium-238. When plutonium-238 decays it produces heat and the battery converts heat into electricity.

Plutonium-238 provides energy for Luna 25.

Plutonium-238 cannot be used to produce nuclear weapons and is not as dangerous as other radioactive substances. Many other spacecraft also use this type of fuel. However, the world is about to run out of radioactive material Plutonium-238. Space agencies will have to find a new fuel source to replace. Unless Russia has some secret way to make this radioactive material.

Roscosmos is not the only space agency to think about returning to the Moon. The European Space Agency (ESA) is also planning to send people to the Moon.

Meanwhile, the United States, which has taken people to the Moon more than 40 years ago, is looking for a target farther than Mars. However, some experts said that the US Space Agency (NASA) is quietly planning to the Moon for the second time, possibly a stop for conquering Mars.