[FPSPACE] Russian Manned Moon missions, revived, to be executed by 2025: Anatoliy Perminov

[Igor Lissov]

Hi,

> Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025 and wants to
build
> a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian space agency
> Roskosmos said Friday.
>
> "According to our estimates we will be ready for a manned flight to the
Moon
> in 2025," Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov told reporters. An "inhabited
> station" could be built there between 2027 and 2032, he said.
>
> Laying out Roskmosmos' plans for the next three decades, Perminov said
that
> Russia intended to complete construction of its section of the
International
> Space Station by 2015 so that the ISS "becomes a fully fledged space
> research centre."
>
> "Major modernisation" will also be carried out to the Soyuz craft used to
> ferry people and cargo to the space station.
>
> An expedition to Mars remains a long-term ambition for Roskosmos, he said.

Well, Perminov said that the 2040 program provides for:
* Development of the new piloted space system by 2015 with a new launch site
for it;
* Finishing ISS by 2015 and operating it by 2020;
* The Moon program with Moon base in 2027-2032;
* The Mars program since 2035;
* And developing the asteroid defense system.

One little detail is the the 2040 plan has not been approved -- yet, as
Perminov claims.

Igor Lissov