Russia’s state-run space corporation Roscosmos is in talks with its Chinese colleagues to determine scientific tasks for a lunar base and to discuss technical aspects of the project’s implementation, deputy director-general for International Cooperation at the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos Sergey Savelyev told Russian News Agency (Tass).

"At present, work is under way to determine possible scientific tasks of mutual interest in the Moon research. Besides, possible technical implementation of the project is being analysed," he said. At the current stage, the lunar station project envisages broad international cooperation...