“Everything that we saw during our visit to Vostochny, all the successes in space exploration in recent years indicate that our country retains its leadership in astronautics, is one of the leaders,” he said.
Earlier, Putin said that Russia intends to resume its lunar program and launch the Luna-25 robotic complex.
The scientific director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lev Zeleny, in a commentary to Izvestia, recalled that the launch of the Luna-25 apparatus would be the first landing in the polar region in the history of mankind.
According to Zeleny, if the project is successfully implemented, it will be possible to hope for the next launches.