Russia and China are discussing the creation of a lunar test site within the framework of the MNLS project

Russia and China, within the framework of the promising International Scientific Lunar Station (ISS), are discussing the creation of a test site on the Moon. TASS learned about this from the director of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), Anatoly Petrukovich.

The scientist noted that the test site could become a landing and launch site for spacecraft, as well as an area for building up the necessary lunar infrastructure.

“Preliminary discussions are currently underway, including with Chinese colleagues within the framework of the Russian-Chinese agreement on cooperation in the field of creating an International Scientific Lunar Station,” the head said.

Petrukovich added that at the end of the 2020s, human flights to the Moon may resume, and by 2035, “it is possible to create [on the surface of the Earth’s natural satellite] something semi-permanent, on which something can be systematically done.”

Earlier, the scientific secretary of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences Margarit Levinskikh, reported that Russia plans to grow wheat and tomatoes at a promising lunar base.