Russia's Moon mission - colony on the Moon by 2030 with 12 cosmonauts

Russia is serious to colonize the Moon. It is building a new spacecraft specifically designed for the moon and plans to send 12 cosmonauts there to establish a colony. It hopes to launch a lunar probe in 2024 to scout out locations and will start building a human colony there in 2030.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 22 June 2016.

Roscosmos has indicated that the human base will be for mining and search and mining for minerals but it could have military applications, as some suggest. In the initial stages, it would be manned by a team of 2 to 4 and that would gradually increase to 10 to 12. The colony would be powered by a sub surface energy station to be located near one of the poles of the Moon and there would be an underground shelter to shield the crew from radiation and any nuclear attacks.
Work has already started on the Luna 25 lander and an Angara A5V heavy lift carrier rocket to dispatch parts to the Moon. The Moon mission would be accomplished by six separate launches of the Angara rocket. Each launch will send one portion of the module to the Moon where these will be assembled on the lines of ISS.
Assembly of the moon base is expected to take more than ten years.
The 'Ryvok' project had been announced in May at the Human Space Exploration international conference in Korolev, near Moscow. The shuttle is expected to be sent on the ISS by Soyuz ships and Angara rockets.


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