Roscosmos Chief Promises Moon and Mars Colonies
Head of Roscosmos promised Russians colonies on the Moon and Mars. Head of Roscosmos Dmitry Bakunov promised in an interview with Yunaev Live that humanity will colonize the Moon and Mars in the near future.
Consensus
- Dmitry Bakanov, head of Roskosmos, stated that humanity will colonize the Moon and then Mars in the near future.
- The current generation may witness long-term human missions to the Moon and possibly other celestial bodies.
- Bakano v considers the Moon as a potential backup location for humanity in case of global disasters on Earth.
- Russia plans to build a lunar nuclear power plant by 2036 to support infrastructure.
- A Mars mission involving a sample return from Phobos is being considered after 2030.
- Russia's lunar program has faced repeated failures and delays, including the 2023 failure of Luna-25.
Points of divergence
- The launch of the next lunar mission has been postponed from 2027 to 2028, and several other missions have been delayed, according to Sergei Chernyshov, vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences. — tg_moscowtimes_ru
- Oleg Kотов, deputy director for science at the Institute of Biomedical Problems, identified medicine as the main obstacle to a Mars expedition, not technology. — vesti
- Sergei Voropaev, a leading researcher at Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, believes Mars was once habitable and that life on Earth may have originated from Mars via meteorites. — vesti
Coverage (2 sources)
- Head of Roscosmos promised Russians colonies on the Moon and Mars — The Moscow Times
- Bakanov is confident that the current generation will witness the colonization of the Moon and Mars — Вести