"Roskosmos" is going to create a visited lunar space station-based module for the ISS
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Today it was announced about the plans "Roscosmos" to create a visited lunar station on the opposite side of the Earth from the Moon's orbit. A station will be created from the module of the ISS, after its modernization. We are talking about Научно-энергетическом module .
As far as we can understand, NASA, ESA and the Japanese Space Agency approved the preliminary draft of the creation of such a station.
"Our international partners from the US, Europe and Japan supported the proposal to establish after decommissioning visited the ISS space station in lunar orbit in the Lagrange point L2 (on the opposite side of the Earth from the Moon's orbit - Interfax-AVN) on the basis of the Russian Scientific-energy module, developed initially for the ISS, "- said the source of the" Roscosmos "(unfortunately" Interfax "does not indicate what the source).
Upgrade module for use in the lunar environment will not be significant. In addition, the module station receives additional nodes for docking with the American and Russian spacecraft.
Module development - business RSC "Energia", and the module will be launched to the ISS in 2018. The project has already been submitted for examination to the TsNIIMash . On the Moon, the same module will be used after the conclusion of the operation of the ISS.
It is expected that the lifetime of the lunar station will be 30 years old.