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Moscow – Russia’s leading space company on Tuesday laid out an ambitious plan to send manned missions to the moon by 2015, build a permanent base to tap its energy resources and dispatch a crew to Mars between 2020 and 2030.
The vision presented by Nikolai Sevastyanov, the head of state-controlled RKK Energiya, relies on attracting private investment.
Sevastyanov said that Energiya, the manufacturer of the Soyuz and Progress spacecraft that ferry crew and supplies to the international space station, would rely on those ships during the first phase of its moon exploration program.
