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Russia and China have sealed a partnership for the building of an International Scientific Lunar Station, an infrastructure on the Moon that according to a report, would rival the planned Gateway of NASA.
The Verge specifically reported that the partnering agencies announced that they signed an agreement to work on the said station orbiting the Moon.
The two space powers had been into discussions for months as Russia reportedly mulled whether it would partake in the Gateway program of NASA, a rival space station to be developed by an alliance of other countries in the next 10 years.
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It’s no secret Americans are planning to set up a base on the Moon. Of course, they will not do this alone, but with the help of a long list of international partners; that list does not include Russia and China.
Russia has signed an agreement with China on the creation of a lunar space station, the "International Scientific Lunar Station," the space agencies of the two countries have announced.Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of Russian space .
Russian space agency Roscosmos said it has signed an agreement with China's National Space Administration to develop research facilities on the surface of the moon .