{"id":85321,"date":"2018-11-30T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/russia-announces-plans-to-establish-moon-colony-by-2040"},"modified":"2018-11-30T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:02:58","slug":"russia-announces-plans-to-establish-moon-colony-by-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/russia-announces-plans-to-establish-moon-colony-by-2040","title":{"rendered":"Russia Announces Plans to Establish Moon Colony by 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-announces-plans-to-establish-moon-colony-by-20402.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first stage foresees the launch of a module to orbit the moon, the RBC news website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.ru\/society\/28\/11\/2018\/5bfedad39a7947dd66c237e0?from=newsfeed\">reported<\/a>, citing Nikolai Sevastyanov, the head of Russia\u2019s TsNIIMash federal rocket and space\u0441raft development corporation.<\/p>\n<p>The second phase will reportedly involve sending the country\u2019s first manned mission to the moon and starting construction of a long-term base between 2025 and 2034. The program\u2019s third stage envisions the completion of the base\u2019s construction by 2040 and the establishment of an \u201cintegrated manned moon exploration system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the moon colony is set to begin late in 2025, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/space\/20181129\/1533743719.html\" target=\"_blank\">cited<\/a> Yevgeny Mikrin, Russia\u2019s chief designer of manned space programs, as saying during a presentation of the draft lunar program on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/themoscowtimes.com\/news\/russia-announces-plans-to-establish-moon-colony-by-2040-63557\">https:\/\/themoscowtimes.com\/news\/russia-announces-plans-to-es...&#45;63557<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first stage foresees the launch of a module to orbit the moon, the RBC news website reported, citing Nikolai Sevastyanov, the head of Russia\u2019s TsNIIMash federal rocket and space\u0441raft development corporation. The second phase will reportedly involve sending the country\u2019s first manned mission to the moon and starting construction of a long-term base between [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}