Russia to launch first moon lander since 1976 in race with Indian spacecraft

The launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome, 3,450 miles east of Moscow, will take place four weeks afterRough terrain makes a landing there difficult, but the south pole is a prized destination because scientists believe it may hold significant quantities of ice that could be used to extract fuel and oxygen, as well as for drinking water.

"There is no danger that they interfere with each other or collide. There is enough space for everyone on the moon," it said. "The moon is the seventh continent of the Earth so we are simply 'condemned', as it were, to tame it," said Lev Zeleny, a space researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Residents of a village in Russia's far east will be evacuated from their homes at 7.30 a.m. on Friday because of a "one in a million chance" that one of the rocket stages that launches Luna-25 could fall to earth there, a local official said.

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