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rachmaninoff
[SOLVED] Russkies are going to the moon!
The head of Energia, Nikolay Sevastyanov, is planning to build a nuclear-powered moon base by 2015, so that they can extract lunar [tex]^3He[/tex] and send it back to earth.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/379/16403_moon.html
http://en.rian.ru/science/20050727/40986242.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/65F240F9-CC80-4677-93D6-EBCACE8E7A45.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_SevastyanovCan you say "space race"?
The head of Energia, Nikolay Sevastyanov, is planning to build a nuclear-powered moon base by 2015, so that they can extract lunar [tex]^3He[/tex] and send it back to earth.
"We are planning to build a permanent base on the Moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale delivery ... of the rare isotope Helium-3," Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of the Energia space corporation, was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying at an academic conference on Wednesday.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/379/16403_moon.html
http://en.rian.ru/science/20050727/40986242.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/65F240F9-CC80-4677-93D6-EBCACE8E7A45.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_SevastyanovCan you say "space race"?
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