So far the truth is that it was, at the very least, disturbing and quite curious the simple fact that Russia would not have been officially involved in this new space race in which there are many rivals to get hold of the title of the company, or nation, that has set foot for the first time in human history Mars. Finally it seems that Russia has just officially joined this race so, at least, the same 'it gets even more interesting'.
With Russia officially in this competition to be the first to make a human being reach Mars and can colonize the planet, surely there will be many fronts, and especially the old quarrels, those that open again. This fact can be something very similar to what happens when there are several companies that fight in the same market, this will make investments grow at the same time that the time necessary for these projects to be carried out is considerably reduced, something that benefits us all and surely, in one way or another, finally has a impact on the technology we use in our day to day.
Russia has just entered officially and through the big door in the race to be the first to reach Mars
Going into a little more detail about the plans they have in Russia for their space agency, tell you that this time it has been nothing less than Vladimir Putin the one who was commissioned just a few days ago to announce that the nation he presides over is in a position to send missions to both the Moon and Mars in the coming years, including a new generation of cosmonauts (Russian word equivalent to the astronauts of the United States) who would be the first human beings to set foot on the neighboring planet.
Despite the fact that Russia may seem that it has decided to enter this race a little late, nothing is further from the truth, the nation has its technology and projects much more advanced than we can imagine, as well as to confirm that they will schedule a series of missions where they plan that the first one, which aims to reach Mars, will be carried out at some point in the future. 2019. In these missions Russia plans to start by sending its own probes and rovers and, a few years later, send its first manned mission.
Before reaching Mars, Roscosmos wants to set his goal on the Moon
Before reaching Mars, all these missions will be replicated in a somewhat more economical and affordable one in technical and logistical terms, setting a clear objective in the Luna. In this way, Vladimir Putin himself officially announced that Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, has in its plans send different missions to the lunar poles to try to finalize much of the work done in this area in the space program that the former Soviet Union had.
Another of the highlights within the new objectives that Roscosmos has is to develop some type of platform on the Moon that can serve as a station for cosmonauts'shuttle'for possible missions to Mars and other planets, an objective that, as you will surely remember, is being considered by other large agencies such as NASA itself.
As you can see, officially Russia has just entered through the big door in a space race where there are many entities that want to be the first to achieve, in one way or another, to be the first to get a human being to step on Mars for the first time in history thanks to their means. As for the different agencies, we can highlight the Chinese and American while, in the private sphere, perhaps the greatest exponents are Boeing or SpaceX, companies that want their rockets to be used to reach the neighboring planet.
More information: The Independent