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Russia Plans A Crewed Mission To The Moon By 2029
• popsci.comThe Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced yesterday that it plans to send humans back to the moon in 2029.
News organization RT reports that the mission would take place in a new spacecraft, which will begin test flights in 2021.
The announcement comes just a few weeks after Roscosmos announced a partnership with the European Space Agency to send a robotic mission to the moon in 2020. And that isn't the only partnership that Roscosmos is forging. RT also reports that the Russian government was in talks with China over a potential collaboration on a scientific lunar base. NASA is planning on heading back to the moon, too, but instead of a crewed mission it will send small satellites there in 2018 to measure the amount of water ice on the moon.