Russia - 2015 moon mission
January 20, 2013, Sunday
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THE Russian Space Agency says it will send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015 from a new launch pad in the country's Far East.
Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday that a rocket booster would deliver a 500-kilogram space exploration vehicle with up to 25 kilograms of scientific equipment to search for water and take soil samples.
Popovkin said the moon-bound spacecraft would be launched from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome. President Vladimir Putin has vowed to invest US$1 billion in building this launch pad in the Amur Region, not far from the Chinese border. Russia's only previous moon mission was in 1973.
Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday that a rocket booster would deliver a 500-kilogram space exploration vehicle with up to 25 kilograms of scientific equipment to search for water and take soil samples.
Popovkin said the moon-bound spacecraft would be launched from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome. President Vladimir Putin has vowed to invest US$1 billion in building this launch pad in the Amur Region, not far from the Chinese border. Russia's only previous moon mission was in 1973.
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