🇷🇺️ - Russia says building a nuclear power plant on the moon is essential to continued lunar exploration, including future crewed missions, as the country targets the mid-2030s to build its first lunar nuclear facility.

🇷🇺️ - Russia says building a nuclear power plant on the moon is essential to continued lunar exploration, including future crewed missions, as the country targets the mid-2030s to build its first lunar nuclear facility.

- Andrei Babkin, deputy commander of the Roscosmos cosmonaut corps, says that nuclear power is a prerequisite for operating on the surface of the moon and supporting long-duration missions.

- Rosatom head Alexei Likhachev previously announced Russia's plan to build the facility by the mid-1930s.