Russia to go to the Moon

[astroron (Ron)]

Russia has decided to enter the race to go to the moon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7946689.stm

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Wow Ron - excellent post. Great to see the momentum building worldwide.

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

just watch how fast the yanks get back up there

geoff

[Lester]

Hey, now thats exciting, nothing like a bit of competition to get them going.

I don't care who gets there again first, just spending money on this is far better than weapons etc.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi Ron,

Most interesting and have to concur with Lester's sentiments, its all good.

Trevor

[Astro78]

Will be a very exciting period for manned space flights. C'mon Branson and co, where's the lunar hotel plans

A few years back the head of Russia's Energia announced their plans for mining Helium-3 on the moon, aiming for 2015.

I wonder if this is a genuine current motive for Russia, US etc.

Biting tongue, nope, here it is.... whoever get's a laser on the moon first could hold a check mate, half the time at least.

[JD2439975 (Justin)]

The first manmade object on the moon visible from earth based telescopes...

An open cut mine??

I guess it's better than everyone staying at home.
About time we went back.

[Vartigy]

Looks like us miners will have "offshore" "FIFO" jobs of a different kind.
Awesome news.