Russia “will book” South Pole of the Moon – Moskovsky Komsomolets

He was selected based on the expected availability of natural resources and the greatest light

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in conjunction with the Federal Space Agency Russian Academy of Sciences program on the methodology and phasing of development satellite. The document says that Russia should immediately reserve the most promising areas of the Moon – its South Pole. Roscosmos concerned that the United States is going to create such a precedent – “nationalize the area around the site of the first moon landing” Apollo 11 “.

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” In the first half of the XXI century rivalry unfold cosmic powers for the possession of the most attractive lunar bridgehead to build 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 “- quoted by RIA Novosti reported with reference to the newspaper” Izvestia “text document.

How to use the moon by a country governed by the so- called the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, under which the signature was originally put the USSR, USA and Great Britain, and later – more than a hundred other countries. According to the second article of the signed document, “outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means “.

In this case, the Outer Space Treaty contains a number of indications that the participants in space programs must retain sovereignty over objects launched into outer space, in including on other planets. Specifically, representatives of the United States insist that future moon visitors do not touch anything on the spot lunar landing landers American spacecraft.

“US actually suggest to nationalize the area around the site of the first moon landing “Apollo 11.” Exploration of the Moon by Russian researchers should occur as a gradual expansion of the infrastructure for pre-scouting bridgehead with favorable lighting conditions, due to the Earth and the moon of natural resources “, – stated in the text of the lunar program.

The development of the South Pole of the Moon to be broken into three stages. The first will be the exploration and planting, the second – the creation of landfill and construction of the base – the third. landfill on the moon is planned to place monitoring stations of the Earth, stands for the development of new space and biomedical tools for the preparation of missions to Mars.

“The practical implementation of the program of development of the South Pole of the Moon using automated tools and integrated use of automatic and manned assets will determine the most important technology, the development of which is necessary in the first place for their success,” – say the authors of the proposed program.

Suggestions for exploration of the moon phases will be considered in parallel with the government draft of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 years. In the framework of its planned set of development work necessary to start exploration of the Moon in the years 2026-2030.

“Technologically, we matured, our industry, in principle, prepared to explore deep space and, above all, the moon. We have prepared a program “Development of deep space,” soon it will present, “- said on October 10 Head of Strategic Planning Roscosmos Yuri Makarov, RIA Novosti reported.

In his words,” a very ambitious program, not only on the budget but also by problems. core of the program is the moon. ” As an added Makarov, this program will be used in the Far East under construction cosmodrome “East”, as well as launch vehicles heavy, and later super-heavy class.

It was reported earlier that the financing of the lunar program Roscosmos need 28 billion rubles. The sum stated in the draft of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 years. Funds will be used to launch a satellite of the Earth six spacecraft.

According to the document, the Federal Space Agency in 2019 planned to be sent to the moon lander, which during the year will test the technology for soft-landing and exploring the ground satellite in its polar regions.

In the next step, in 2021 and 2023, respectively, in the framework of the project “Luna-Resource” agency to launch a satellite of the Earth two orbital probe for remote communication with the lander, which is scheduled to deliver to the moon in 2023 and 2025 m years. In 2025, the satellite will be delivered to the lander with the established mechanism for the collection of soil samples and rocket to send it back to Earth.