May 28, 2025

Financing for Russia's new lunar program, which aims to build a station on the moon, will begin in 2025. This was stated by the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Gennady Krasnikov at the general meeting of the Academy.

"As for the lunar program, it includes seven lunar missions with various scientific objectives. <...> This is a large and very responsible program and, of course, a serious challenge for our academic institutions. Financing of this program will begin this year," said the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to him, at the first stage, the research is supposed to be conducted using automatic flights: it is necessary to study the poles of the Moon, where the largest accumulations of ice are found, and take the soil for analysis. Then lunar rovers will be sent to the Moon to study the terrain and prepare for the placement of the future lunar station.

Source: https://tass.ru/kosmos/24069323