Putin Says Russia Is Landing on the Moon This Year

Russian president Vladimir Putin seems to be letting his imagination run wild about space exploration.

During his visit to the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Tuesday, Putin said that we need to stand up to the challenges of space exploration.

Putin said during the announcement that the country will restore the moon program.

It would be a huge understatement to say that the time line is ambitious.

Making announcements about landing on the Moon, a grand endeavor of nationalist pride, is certainly par for the course for a government actively shielding its citizens from hearing about the atrocities unfolding in Ukraine.

The Luna 25 station must be completed by the third quarter of this year, according to Putin.

It is expected, replied Rogozin, seemingly nonplussed by the suggestion.

It is questionable whether Russia will be able to land a craft on the Moon within the next eight months. The Luna-25 mission was originally scheduled to launch in 2016 but has been delayed for over a decade.

If everything goes according to plan, the mission will launch from Vostochny on August 22.

Delays aside, the country's space program is facing a wall of sanctions from international partners over the country's invasion of Ukraine, with major partners, including NASA and the European Space Agency, rushing to find alternatives to Russian-made rockets.

The goal of establishing a lunar research station with China by the year 2035 is said to be a stepping stone.

It is putting it lightly that the work of Rogozin and Roscosmos is very difficult. Since the late 1950s, countless attempts have been made to land on the Moon.

The Soviet Union was the first country to reach the surface of the Moon with its Luna 2 mission in 1959.

It has been 46 years since Russia launched a mission to the moon. The year of the country's glorious return to our closest neighbor will be marked by conflict and a dissolution of international cooperation. It remains to be seen.

Putin said that Russia will restart moon landings.

The Russian space program wants NASA for help.

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