US will explore the moon together with Japan. As the Japanese media write, NASA and the Department of Education, culture, sport, Japan Science and Technology Signed Declaration.
According to The Nikkei, the signed declaration provides for the landing of partners on the moon to 2024 year, as well as the participation of Japan in the creation of the moonway station Gateway. Other clauses of the agreement are not given.. As previously reported, Japanese government announces decision to join NASA's lunar program last October.
The American program of moon exploration is called Artemis and consists of three stages: at the first stage, the Orion ship must make an unmanned flight around the Moon and return to Earth (second half 2020 of the year). In the second stage in 2022 Americans planned a manned flyby of the Earth’s natural satellite, and on the third, at 2024 year, NASA expects astronauts to land on the moon.
Russia previously also participated in the program of creating a near-moon station, but later left her, since the whole role of Russia was only to create a gateway module and life support systems.
Russia is currently implementing its own lunar program. According to her in October 2021 years to the moon will be launched automatic station “Luna-25”. Subsequently, as part of the lunar program, after sending the device “Luna-25”, planned in 2024 send an orbital station to the Earth satellite “Moon 26”, in 2025 - a landing station “Moon 27”.
