[ExI] China and Russia say they will join forces to build moon base

[Adrian Tymes]

Color me skeptical.

I believe they'll try.  I believe they'll make much noise about it.  But I
also see the announced dates getting pushed back as the dates approach,
with no acknowledgement there ever were prior promised dates.

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:09 PM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I wonder when they will have it up and running... 2035 perhaps?
>
> "The two countries agreed to the plans on Tuesday (March 9),  saying the
> International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) would be "open to all
> interested countries and international partners."
>
> The "memorandum of understanding" between the two countries, announced by
> the *China National Space Administration*
> <http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/n6465652/n6465653/c6811380/content.html>
> (CNSA), described the ILRS as a "comprehensive scientific experiment base
> with the capability of long-term autonomous operation, built on the lunar
> surface and/or on the lunar orbit that will carry out multi-disciplinary
> and multi-objective scientific research activities such as the lunar
> exploration and utilization, lunar-based observation, basic scientific
> experiment and technical verification."
> https://www.livescience.com/china-russia-moon-mission.html
>
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