Will the First Person to Stand on the Moon be a Russian?
 

Russia just announced that it's sending humans to the moon


The European Space Agency's version of a permanent lunar base.

Before 2030, Russia plans to land its first cosmonauts on the moon, and Europe wants a piece of the action.

They're a little late for the great space race of the 1960s, but the mission is an admirable push for the reignited interest in manned deep-space travel.

On Tuesday, at a space and technology conference in Moscow, the head of Roscosmos Energia ? Russia's version of NASA ? announced: "A manned flight to the moon and lunar landing is planned for 2029."

And the European Space Agency, which made history last year by landing the first spacecraft on a comet, is teaming up.

"We have an ambition to have European astronauts on the moon," Bérengère Houdou, head of the lunar-exploration group at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Center, recently told BBC News. "There are currently discussion at international level going on for broad cooperation on how to go back to the moon."

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seems like a pointless endeavor... what possible value is there in letting couple of astronauts walk around the moon for a day or 2? I don't see what they could do that a machine dropped on a surface of the moon couldn't do just as well for fraction of the cost/risk...

Maybe ...

1) to prove American's did it
2) to begin building and claiming areas
3) to show world they can do it and more

1. there is nothing to prove, no one outside of conspiracy theory nutjobs believes US didn't land on the moon
2. maybe, but it sounds like it's a simple land on the moon, and walk around for a day type of a mission, there is no mention of building anything
3. yea, what a great accomplishment, to be a 2nd country to land humans on the moon SIXTY years later... :1orglaugh

I would have upped the ante a bit, and proposed landing on mars instead, landing on the moon is old news... :2 cents:

If all goes well SpaceX will send people to Mars before that :)

All this for theft of the budget and political advertising Putin. not more......

Because we need to explore space. Eventually we will leave Earth and expand to other planets. This is a first step.

4) Resources
5) Tourism (ovously)
6) Exploration
7) Expansion of the worlds space programs (most important ever if we wanna get rid of the hardcore bible dummies)

There are no reasons not to besides misguided beliefs (not just religious).

LOL, guess this explains why our still posting here

They want to play capture the flag games LMAO
Been there done that ....

Tourism? Their own tourism officials are dying on the vine. They can't get any tourism to their own country but "domestic" i.e. Russian tourism.

Frankly, Russia is the weakest of the big 3 right now, which is terrible, since 50% of the people are really good people.

If they go back to starving the populace to make big achievements, then it will be just the US and China.

Dumbass..