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Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025, 57 years after Nasas Apollo mission in 1968 - and wants to build a permanent base there.
Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, said that an inhabited station could be built between 2027 and 2032. Russia intended to complete construction of its section of the International Space Station by 2015 so that the ISS becomes a fully fledged space research centre, he added. Mr Perminov pointed out that Russias space programme receives less than 10 per cent of the funding the US receives, yet retains great ambitions. An expedition to Mars remained a long-term ambition for Roskosmos, which hoped to send manned flights there after 2035, he said.

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Russia says it will send cosmonauts to the moon by 2025, with plans for a permanent manned base.
Anatoly Perminov, head of the space agency, said a manned flight to Mars is scheduled for after 2035. He said Russia will have 103 satellites in orbit by the end of the year.
Perminov said the first Russian will make a tourist flight from Baikonur to the International Space Station in 2009.
The man, whose name was not disclosed, is a young Russian businessman and politician.
Tickets for tourist space flights, priced at around $30 million, are a major source of revenue for the agency.

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