Dmitri Rogozin, director of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, noted that Russia is opposed to the privatization and commercial exploitation of the Moon. “In no case will we allow the privatization of the Moon by anyone. This is illegal and contradicts international law, ”he assured the Komsomólskaya Pravda radio station.
In that sense, he noted that Russia has no intention of engaging in a “space race” to compete just as “the Republicans and Democrats in the United States do.”
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“We cannot act on the Moon in the same way that the Soviet Union unfortunately reacted to the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). USA, when a colossal amount of money was wasted on a fantasy idea that was never carried out, ”he said.
The IDE was a proposal promoted by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, popularly known as the ‘Star Wars’, which aimed to establish a space anti-missile defense system and forced the Soviet Union to engage in a new spiral of the arms race .
The Moon is of interest to Roscosmos, he said, first of all from the point of view of its emergence and existence as a satellite of the Earth, which guarantees the possibility of life on our planet.
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“We will carry out the necessary experiments on the Moon to work on asteroids and the most distant planets, be it the launch and descent without atmosphere, or the transport system that allows crews and cargo to be carried”he indicated.
That is why, he stated, “the Moon is not our ultimate goal.”
On April 6, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, signed a provision supporting the commercial exploitation of the Moon and other celestial bodies. In addition, the US president stressed that outer space is legally and physically a unique field of human activity and that the United States “does not see it as a common good.”
When Trump signed the document, he stated that “Americans should have the right to participate in the commercial exploration, extraction, and use of resources in outer space, in accordance with applicable law. Outer space is a legally and physically unique domain of human activity, and the United States does not see it as a global common good. In consecuense, US policy USA will be to encourage international support for the exploitation and the public and private use of resources in outer space, in accordance with the applicable law ”.
From Russia they warned that the Trump initiative must be studied from a legal point of view.
EFE
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