The village of Shakhtinsky will be evacuated on Friday as it is within the area Russian officials believe rocket boosters will fall during the launch.
Russian authorities will evacuate a settlement in the country's Far East later this week as Moscow prepares for its first moon landing in almost 50 years, a local official has said. Residents of the village of Shakhtinsky, in Russia's Khabarovsk region, will leave their homes on August 11 at around 7.
30 a.m. Moscow time to avoid fallout from the rocket launch, Alexei Maslov, head of the Verkhnebureinskyi district of the region, said in a post to Telegram on Monday. Russia is expected to fire its Luna-25 lunar lander mission in the early hours of Friday morning local time from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome. "This is the first lunar program to take place in the 21st century," Maslov said. The Luna-25 is described by Russian state news agency, Tass, as"the first domestically-made probe in modern Russia's history." Luna 25, also designated the Luna-Glob-Lander, is a Russian lunar lander mission currently scheduled for launch on August 11 in Russia's Far East. Luna-25 will explore the area of the Moon close to the Boguslavsky crater, according to Russian state media.The Luna-25 will"conduct long-term scientific research," including analyzing soil samples on the south pole of the Moon, Russian space agency, Roscosmos, said on Monday. It will land and explore the area of the Moon close to the Boguslavsky crater, Tass reported.It will use a Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket to reach Earth orbit, before entering lunar transfer orbit, followed by lunar orbit and ultimately reaching the surface of the moon, according to. The initial flight stage will last around four and a half days, state news outlet RIA Novosti reported. The village of Shakhtinsky is within the area Russian officials believe the rocket boosters will fall during the launch, Maslov said. "Fallen fragments can cause injury to people in the immediate vicinity of the place of their fall," Maslov said on August 2. The falling rocket boosters will sound like"thunder," he added. In late May, Roscosmos announced the launch would be set for August, delayed from the previously-planned date of July 13, 2023. Russia had"tentatively" planned to launch the probe in 2022, according to Tass.
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