Roscosmos plans to build a lunar base, establish industry and mining

How TASS reported , for approval to the Government of the Russian Federation sent a project to colonize the Moon. The first project to unleash satellite as a place to house dangerous for the environment industry and mining. Moon base will address issues such as protection from asteroids and comets, as well as the decrease in the concentration of industry in the world.

"The moon - the closest source of extraterrestrial matter, minerals, minerals, volatile compounds, water. The closest, and so far the only available person. Availability of resources in the Arctic and Antarctic is comparable to the availability of resources of the Moon. [...] With the development of space activities Russian lunar landfill will be gradually transformed into a lunar base, around which will gradually build up a research and provides the infrastructure, "- stated in the document, in the preparation of which was attended by specialists of the Russian Space Agency," Rosatom ", Institute of Space Research, Kurchatov Institute, TsNIIMASH.

Exploration of the Moon begins with the creation of the outpost, which will include power plants, life support module and experimental laboratory module and a set of vehicles - rovers and lunoletov. Under the plan, the first 20 years of the expedition to the moon will be to establish and collect the items and maintain the infrastructure of the system. In addition, in the vicinity of the base is proposed to deploy an astronomical laboratory. The cost of the project, painted before 2050, estimated at 12, 5 trillion rubles.

Previous Roscosmos announced plans for the development of our satellite included visited a lunar orbital station based module for the ISS and the construction of ground prototype lunar base 2020.

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