Russia intends to stake out a place for a lunar base

General Director of NPO Lavochkin (included in the Roskosmos) Vladimir Kolmykov said that the launch to the moon heavy boarding the Russian station “Luna-27” around which in the future may begin the deployment of Russian lunar infrastructure, is scheduled for August 2025. It is reported by RIA “Novosti”.

According to him, currently, we are developing documentation for “development work “Luna-Resource-1”, in which you are creating the spacecraft “Luna-27”.

Kolmykov was informed that the documentation needs to be completed in November 2021.

It is noted that the main task of the station “Luna-27” is drilling of soil and sampling frozen samples, which will be investigated on the spot.