Russia is planning to send astronauts to the moon, know what is the intention

Russia plans to send astronauts to land on the Moon in the next decade for the first time in its history and intends to build a moon base from 2031, according to the Russian corporation responsible for human space flights. TASS said on Wednesday that a draft plan presented by Vladimir Solovyov of RKK Energia said Russia is planning manned missions to the Moon, including the first Russian human landing on the Moon.

Preparation for the deployment of the lunar base – 2031-2040, TASS said, citing the draft plan. The plan also talked about exploiting the resources of the Moon. Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed in August when its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon, underscoring the post-Soviet problems experienced by the once powerful space program. Is. American astronaut Neil Armstrong gained fame for becoming the first man to walk on the Moon in 1969, but the Soviet Union’s Luna-2 mission was the first spacecraft to reach the Moon’s surface in 1959, and the Luna-9 mission in 1966 was the first .

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space, but Soviet cosmonauts never made a human landing on the Moon.