A secret Russian company hasannouncedthat it is capable of constructing a new geographic expedition substructure on the moon , which will be in the region of $ 9.3 billion .
Lin Industrial has design the new lunar foot , which would be built nigh to Malapert Mountain near the moon ’s south pole , so that it can be constructed in two stage . In the first instance , the base would house just two crew , but it would then be followed by an file name extension to increase that number to four .
Current plan hint that a sum of 37 rocket launch would be call for to manufacture the pedestal , including 13 arduous carrier launches . It ’s aver that initial merchant vessels and construction would take five geezerhood , and the base would be complete within ten .
It ’s undecipherable whether the plan has inviolable funding , or what the docket for the project might be . But given other moon - basedprojects are also in the offing , this could signify a regenerate pastime in explore our nearest stellar neighbour . [ Sputnik ]
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