Energia Lunar Expedition

The Energia Lunar Expedition was a project that was initiated by Valentin Glushko during 1988 to create a lunar base using the Energia booster. The Moon base was to be eventually used for mining helium 3 from the lunar surface.

Hardware

The Energia expeditions involved at least two sections of hardware. which were placed into a Low Earth orbit in separate Energia launches.

Mission Profile

gollark: Did I just now say now twice in one clause?
gollark: PotatOS now has the `chaos` RNG now, but that's not actually used, and is... probably worse.
gollark: People are very creative when it comes to PotatOS exploits, I must say. Galaxtone actually exploited the random number generator by seeding it with a fixed, er, seed.
gollark: Oh. I see. Hm.
gollark: Well, this exposes an issue with `load` sandboxing, then.

See also

  • Soviet Moonshot
  • Space race


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