Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon

An anonymous reader writes: Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, has announced it intends to bring humans to the Moon by roughly 2030. Russia plans a full-scale exploration of the Moon's surface. Agency head Oleg Ostapenko said that by the end of the next decade, "based on the results of lunar surface exploration by unmanned space probes, we will designate [the] most promising places for lunar expeditions and lunar bases.

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I bet Putin couldn't go to the moon

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet Vladimir Putin isn't man enough to leave next month and travel to the moon, then plant the Russian flag on the surface of it.

Re:I bet Putin couldn't go to the moon

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not an Invasion.
It's a humanitarian effort to bring supplies to the lunies.

Re:I bet Putin couldn't go to the moon

[Nidi62]

I bet Vladimir Putin isn't man enough to leave next month and travel to the moon, then plant the Russian flag on the surface of it.

Wouldn't work. When they show the picture of him planting that flag on the moon while not wearing a shirt everyone will know it was photoshopped.

Re:I bet Putin couldn't go to the moon

[meta-monkey]

Incorrect. Putin would plant the flag, on the moon, shirtless, and the moon would explode from exposure to his supreme manliness.

Re:I bet Putin couldn't go to the moon

[qwijibo]

In Putin's Russia, Chuck Norris copied him.

Re:I bet Putin couldn't go to the moon

[pushing-robot]

sorry guys watched iron sky with vlad now hes raving about moon nazis gtg my bad

Lil' Putin

[Anonymous Coward]

Vladimir Putin: I wanna invade the United States!
Advisor: Your majesty, that is most unwise at this point in time. I think you ...
Vladimir Putin: Then I wanna invade Georgia!
Adviser: Your majesty, as you recall we tried that already and ...
Vladimir Putin: Then I wanna invade Ukraine!
Adviser: Your majesty, that is already in progress as your ordered on your birthday ...
Vladimir Putin: *looks around the dinner table for invasion inspiration* I wanna invade Turkey!
Adviser: Your majesty! What has come over you? You know you're limited by doctrine to one invasion per year!
Vladimir Putin: *pouts and looks out the window* I wanna invade ... THE MOON.
Adviser: *murmurs quietly with other advisers* And, you promise this will be the last invasion? This will use up all your invasion credits, you know.
Vladimir Putin: Yes.
Adviser: Okay then finish your peas and we'll make a press release tomorrow.
Vladimir Putin: But I don't wanna finish my peas! I hate you, I hate you! You never let me do anything fun! I wish I was never born!

Re:Lil' Putin

[jez9999]

Why did I read the Putin lines in a George W Bush voice?

Have they seen the Apollo 18 footage yet?

[JudgeFurious]

There's a reason we didn't go back you know.

Re:Because that makes sense

[TheCreeep]

Going to the moon while the economy is crumbling, foreign countries are invaded and human rights are being trampled.

Are you talking about the U.S. or Russia?

Russia, obviously.
The US is not going to the moon anytime soon with NASA's budget.

Re:Because that makes sense

[camperdave]

By the time NASA arrives on the moon, its astronauts would be able to get chow mein, vodka, AND tandoori chicken from the locals.

Re:Most promising places

[sudon't]

There have been 29 Moon landings. Six manned, twenty-three unmanned. The US hasn't gone since then because, it's fucking expensive, and the pissing war with the Soviets ended. But even if they flew your dumb ass to the Moon and rubbed your face into one of the many footprints on the surface, you'd think up some convoluted way that they must of faked it.