Russia plans missions to Mars and the Moon

[Klaus Lange]

Yes. I suppouse we're now on next stage of conquer of space, practical use of it, not only purely scientific purpouses or communication satellites. Space can be now used as place to spy others or source of rare elements, for example minimal traces of Helium-3 are found on Earth, while there are great deposits of this isotope on Moon. He-3 is probably fuel of the future, as fuel for nuclear fusion reactor ( e.g. like this one from ITER program:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER )

btw. From interesting things - sole helium producing facility in the whole European Union is in Poland, owned by state-controlled PGNiG, Polish Petroleum and Gas Mining.
Thanks to this, Poland is one from the only 6 countries on the world processing that element.


EDIT: No, that part about helium producing facility in Poland wasn't political issue, just additional info for curious members.