Problems of Transition from Lunar Research to Lunar Exploration

Abstract

All existing lunar programs are aimed at deepening the already received information about the Moon. At the same time, the tasks of the exploration of the Moon and its resources start to prevail. The second lunar race is precisely for the opportunity to build lunar bases in the most promising places. Therefore, it is necessary to revise the priorities in the list of tasks of the upcoming space missions. It is rational to choose the central part of the lunar disk as a location for the Russian lunar base and concentrate all the forces of domestic cosmonautics on providing long-term manned expeditions to the Moon and solving problems of biological research in conditions of low lunar gravity. The creation of a Russian lunar base will be the prologue of Russia's terrestrial borders into space.