CHINA-RUSSIA: RUSSIA AND CHINA TO COOPERATE ON SPACE PROJECTS INCLUDING A JOINT LUNAR SPACE STATION
Russia and China have unveiled plans for a joint lunar space station. The Russian space agency Roscomos said in a statement on March 9, that it had signed an agreement with China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) to develop a “complex of experimental research facilities created on the surface and/or in the orbit of the Moon”. CNSA said the project was “open to all interested countries and international partners” in what experts said would be China’s biggest international space cooperation project to date. Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin wrote on Twitter that he invited CNSA chief Zhang Kejian to the launch of Russia’s first modern lunar lander, Luna 25, scheduled for October 1 – the first lunar lander to be launched by Russia since 1976.
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