Russia To Begin Moon Colonization In 2030

via Prison Planet

Russia has drafted a program for colonization of the moon, and plans to send the first expeditions to build a permanent lunar base in 2030, the Russian Izvestia daily said Thursday, citing an official document.

“The moon is a space object for the future exploration by terrestrial civilization, and a geopolitical competition for the Moon’s natural resources may begin in the 21st century,” said a report on a potential lunar program prepared by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Roscosmos space agency and Moscow State University.

The program aims to build an inhabited moon base and testing ground by the middle of the century, which would allow mineral extraction on Earth’s only natural satellite.

Me personally, I don’t care who does the colonizing.  Outside of Earth, there are no nations, we are all Earthlings.  My only fear is that we don’t respect the Moon, like we don’t respect our Earth and in the process some devstating things occur.