Russia is going back to the moon this year – Space.com

Russia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that will take the nation back to the m
o
on
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The first of those missions, dubbed Luna 25, is scheduled to launch this October, ending a 45-year drought of Russian moon landings with the nation’s first arrival at the south pole, where, like everyone else targeting the moon, Russian scientists want to study water locked below the surface
in permanent ice.
“The moon is the center of our program for the next decade,” Lev…

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