- Roscosmos head discussed launching cosmonauts from Kourou with French counterpart
- Russian-Chinese lunar south pole base is rival to planned U.S. facility
- Russia to begin design work on new Earth orbiting station by late summer
by Douglas Messier
Managing Editor
Roscosmos is exploring the possibility of launching spacecraft from the Guiana Space Centre in South America that would carry cosmonauts to the new Chinese space station and a base that Russia and China plan to build at the lunar south pole, according to media reports. Russia is also beginning work on a new Earth orbiting space station.
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