Russian Permanently Manned Moon Base-Station Planned

[rdunk]

The secret space base expected to begin operations by 2030! So what do you think? Are we possibly seeing the beginning of another "space race" like as in the 1960's.....? This news report does quote NASA as saying, "NASA also has plans to build a lunar base, which could open up as early as 2022.

The Sun
BY JASPER HAMILL  21st June 2016, 12:19 pm

The Russian equivalent of NASA has announced plans to permanently station 12 cosmonauts in a secret base on the moon.

It might sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but the very real plan is likely to leave politicians from the West feeling both shaken and stirred.

The space agency RosCosmos has spent years working on its lunar base scheme and has slowly released tantalising details of the plans.

Now it has announced that a dozen cosmonauts – the Russian word for astronaut – will live on the base.

"At the initial stage, the Moon base will be manned by no more than 2-4 people, with their number later rising to 10-12 people," Olga Zharova from the Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash) told the newspaper Izvestia today.

The base is likely to be built near one of the moon's poles, with a power station buried beneath it.

More: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1317268/russia-to-conquer-the-moon-by-stationing-a-squad-of-cosmonauts-in-permanent-lunar-outpost/

An artist's impression of what a moon base might look like:

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

What? To go along with the Two they already have?

[Norval]

, , , , , my how the BS just keeps coming about a "moon base" ! !   

Every 5-10 years some country spouts this bold faced lie and it never happens ! ! !   

[Ellirium113]

The Russian equivalent of NASA has announced plans to permanently station 12 cosmonauts in a secret base on the moon.

The first thing you must always remember to do when dealing with a SECRET moon base is to alert the public about it.