The Russian Aerospace Corporation believes that there is a possibility for Russia and China to participate in the joint manned program.

CTOnews.com, April 24, today is the eighth China Space Day. At the launching ceremony of the 2023 China Space Day home event held in Hefei, Anhui Province this morning, the National Space Administration of China announced that it had donated lunar samples to Russia and France.

According to the Russian satellite news agency, Sergei ∙ Krikalev, executive director of the manned space program of the Russian state-owned aerospace group, believes that there is a possibility that Russia and China will participate in the joint manned program in the future.

"China Aerospace is really ahead, and now the Chinese space station is running, so in the future we plan to jointly develop automatic devices, perhaps to jointly explore deep space and the moon," he said during the celebration of China Space Day. It is also possible to participate in the manned program in the next stage. "

Krikalev added that Russia and China are negotiating cooperation within the framework of Russia's new space station. "China has built a space station in orbit to facilitate their launch from its own territory, but future manned flight plans are only under discussion."

He also mentioned that the Russian-Chinese Joint Lunar Research Station project is currently used jointly through automatic instruments, which is to establish an instrument system that uses automatic devices to explore the moon and exchange information with each other. "in the future, of course, these data can be used for manned programs, but it is not possible to give a specific date at present."

According to previous reports from CTOnews.com, the construction of Russia's own space orbital station, ROSS, will start in 2024, and the full construction of the orbital station is scheduled to be completed by 2032 instead of 2035 as previously planned.

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