Energy Race Update

By | January 27, 2006
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Russia wants in on “the energy race” too.

We are planning to build a permanent base on the moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale delivery… of the rare isotope Helium-3,” Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of the Energia space corporation, was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying at an academic conference.

The International Space Station (ISS) would play a key role in the project and a regular transport relay to the moon would be established with the help of the planned Clipper spaceship and the Parom, a space capsule intended to tug heavy cargo containers around space, Sevastyanov said.

  • Paul F. Dietz

    In this case, I understand that ‘we are planning’ means ‘we’ve thrown this idea out in the optimistic hope that the government will like it and give us some money’.

    In other words, don’t hold your breath. We’ve been hearing a lot of pie-in-the-sky ideas like this from the Russian space industry lately.