The Energia Lunar Expedition was a project that was proposed by Soviet engineer Valentin Glushko in 1988 which would’ve aimed to create a lunar base using the Energia rocket. The lunar base was to then 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.
Mission Profile
See also Soviet Moonshot Space race
References
External links Link to the space encyclopedia.