Russia announced that it's sending humans to the moon
Russia just announced that it's sending humans to the moon (ESA) The European Space Agency's version of a permanent lunar base. Before 2030, Russia plans to land its first cosmonauts on the moon, and Europe wants a piece of the action. They're a little late for the great space race of the 1960s, but the mission is an admirable push for the reignited interest in manned deep-space travel. On Tuesday, at a space and technology conference in Moscow, the head of Roscosmos Energia — Russia's version of NASA — announced: "A manned flight to the moon and lunar landing is planned for 2029." And the European Space Agency, which made history last year by landing the first spacecraft on a comet, is teaming up. "We have an ambition to have European astronauts on the moon," Bérengère Houdou, head of the lunar-exploration group at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Center, recently told BBC News . "There are currently discussion at internat...