Roskosmos and the Russian Academy of Sciences offers master the moon from the South Pole – BFM.Ru

is necessary to stake a claim for the South Pole Russian satellite

In Russia prepared a package of proposals on the methodology and phasing of development of the Moon, according to “Izvestia».

Document compiled by a working group of the Russian Space Agency and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia proposes to consolidate the most promising area of ​​the moon – its South Pole.

The text says that “in the first half of the XXI century rivalry unfold cosmic powers for the possession of the most attractive lunar bridgehead for the creation of future research stations. Lunar bridgeheads are sized for the maximum duration of the illumination and the presence in their immediate vicinity deposits of water ice ».

The development is proposed to the moon in three stages: exploration and landing – the first stage, the creation of the landfill – the second stage and the construction of the base – third.

As the scientific director of the Space Policy Institute Ivan Moiseev, “there is a clear separation from the reality in which we now dwell. For our space industry is now the most pressing problems – a low reliability technology and low labor productivity. These internal problems now have to add an external – import substitution technologies that are inaccessible to us. Talk seriously about the problems of such magnitude as a base on the moon, it will be possible after we successfully solve the problems of today. But it will take more than a year ».