Russian expert: Russia's space goal should be to reach an exoplanet!
Finding a planet similar to Earth and then reaching it.
TASS reported on June 10.
Russia is capable of setting an ambitious goal - reaching an exoplanet similar to Earth.
This was reported by the press service of aerospace company "New Space", said Dmitry Matsuk, chairman of its board of directors, at the "Russian Space" panel discussion.
Mars is not Russia's goal, but just a necessary step in developing other planets and technologies beyond the solar system.
For Russia's space program, it is possible to propose another idea - not a race to Mars, but a distant goal - to reach one of the thousands of discovered exoplanets that are very similar to Earth.
According to Songka, such a mission will create technologies useful for both Earth and future space research.
According to Matsuk, such a mission will become a legacy for Russian scientists.
The proposal of the exoplanet idea was in response to Musk's speech at the same conference.
Russian scientists are ambitious, but Russian netizens lack confidence.
Sergey Ponomarev said: "But our lunar probe failed to land on the moon."
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