Race to launch Moon landing probe
August 16, 2010 at 8:17 am | Posted in Space Law Current Events | Leave a commentby Sara M. Langston with the blog faculty
Source: BBC
A modern-day space race to land an unmanned probe on the Moon is emerging between Russia and India on one side and China on the other.
After months of negotiations, Russian and Indian engineers have started working on a robotic mission together.
It is set to launch in 2013, to roughly match the scheduled lunar landing of China’s Chang’e-3 spacecraft.
Whichever team gets there first, it would be the first human hardware to function on the lunar surface since the Soviet Luna-24 spacecraft returned to Earth with Moon’s soil samples in 1976…more
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