Russia plans Moon base, Mars network by 2030
March 16, 2012 | Source: Wired Science
Mars (Credit: NASA)
Russia plans to send probes to Jupiter and Venus, land a network of unmanned stations on Mars and ferry Russian cosmonauts to the surface of the Moon — all by 2030, according to a leaked document from the country’s space agency.
By 2020, the six-seater Angara rocket will replace the Soyuz as the spaceship of choice for launching Russian payloads.
By 2030, Russia will send robots to the Moon to collect samples. The program will be punctuated with a manned Moon landing.
The optimistic program also lays out plans for active exploration of other planets in the solar system, and ideas for a follow-up to the International Space Station after 2020.
Comments (5)
by melajara
Werner von Braun, we miss you so much!
by John Doe
Really we shouldn’t bother blowing so much cash into funding the research required to haul Meatbag Humans all the way up to those planets. It’s totally wasteful, we should wait until we can modify human bodies and minds to be more resilient against the hostile environment of space before lugging us all the way there.
That way things will become more manageable, sustainable and less fragile.
by craig fox
considering their lack of interest in maintenance quality of construction, I would not recommend a visit. Once they backed off of eastern Europe, there were 400,000 repair jobs underway at one time. Imagine what a moon base or mars base will look like without paint, plumbing repairs, or with the leaky roofs,walls, etc..
by Atmic
Hopefully the steps necessary for this to occur will start happening, and with regards to the US — maybe a little cold war could fund another space race… when the economy comes back out of the toilet
by Dirk Bruere
And the USA planned for a manned Mars mission in 1984. I guess that puts the USA way ahead when it comes to planning.