Energia Lunar Expedition

The Energia Lunar Expedition was a project that was initiated by Valentin Glushko during 1988 to create a lunar base using the Energia booster. The moon base was to be eventually used for mining helium 3 from the lunar surface.

Hardware

The Energia expeditions involved at least two sections of hardware. which were placed into a Low earth orbit in separate Energia launches.

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Soviet and Russian projects	Zvezda moonbase (1960s) KLE Complex Lunar Expedition (1970s) L3M (1970s) Lunar Expeditionary Complex (1970s) Energia Lunar Expedition (1980s) Luna-Glob

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Energia Lunar Expedition

Hardware

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