“We understand that in the past decades, and now often, such operations in space are a kind of cover for carrying out certain undeclared operations. Cosmos is not only civil, ”kp.ru quotes him.
Rogozin stressed that he sees no other reason for the United States to re-send a man to the moon 50 years after the first landing.
“I do not think that there are military interests on the moon. Although I do not exclude, for example, certain experiments that can be conducted there in conditions of increased radiation, in conditions of low gravity, which may be of interest to the military too, ”he added.
Earlier, the head of NASA, Jim Brydenstein called on international partners to assist in organizing the sending of Americans to the moon in 2024.
At the end of March, US Vice President Mike Pence demanded that NASA land a man on the moon for five years.