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In a move hoping to land humans one day on Mars, both Russia and the United States agreed to cooperate on a NASA-led project to build the first lunar space station.
On Wednesday, the Russian space agency Roscosmos and NASA said they had signed a cooperation agreement at an astronautical congress in Adelaide.
According to AFP, NASA had said earlier this year that it was exploring a program called the Deep Space Gateway, a multi-stage project to push further into the solar system.
An international base for lunar exploration for humans and robots and a stopover for spacecraft is a leading contender to succeed the $100 billion International Space Station (ISS), the world’s largest space project to date.
NASA said the agreement reflected the two agencies’ common vision for human exploration.
“While the deep space gateway is still in concept formulation, NASA is pleased to see growing international interest in moving into cislunar space as the next step for advancing human space exploration,” said Robert Lightfoot, acting administrator at NASA headquarters in Washington, was quoted as saying.
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