President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the first segment of Russia's new orbital station, which Moscow sees as the next logical development in space exploration after the International Space Station (ISS), should be put into operation by 2027.
Putin said Moscow's decision to extend to 2028 its participation in the ISS, now 25 years old, was a temporary measure.
The new station, he said, had to "consider all advanced achievements of science and technology and have the potential to take on the tasks of the future". "The ISS is getting old and will come to an end sometime around 2030," Russian agencies quoted him as telling reporters. "We will of course be working on this. The lunar programme will continue. There are no plans to close it," Putin said.
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