Russia will send a spacecraft to the Moon later this year and strengthen cooperation with Belarus in space infrastructure and space technology, Russian President Vladimir Putin said today.
Speaking at a meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East, Putin referred to Soviet successes in space and said no amount of sanctions on Russia could stop its progress.
The Russian special military operation, as Moscow calls it, to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine has prompted a barrage of sanctions from Western countries, including restrictions on scientific funding and cooperation.
Putin said Russia will develop a next-generation space shuttle and technologies for nuclear power in space. He also said he would send a spacecraft, the Luns-25, to the Moon in the third quarter of this year.
Russia will work jointly with Belarus on infrastructure to ensure countries' independent access to space, Putin said, adding that he has asked the Russian space agency Roskosmos to train a Belarusian for a flight aboard a Russian spacecraft.
Source: Proto Thema
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