MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 12th May, 2019) Russia's lunar rover, which is projected to be delivered to the Moon by the Luna-29 spacecraft, will be controlled by an anthropomorphic robot, a space industry source told Sputnik on Sunday.
The launch of the Luna-29 mission is scheduled in 2028. Another source in the space industry told Sputnik on Saturday that the Luna-29 spacecraft with a 1.3-tonne lunar rover is planned to be launched from Russia's Vostochny cosmodrome using the Angara-A5B launch vehicle with the oxygen-hydrogen booster.
"The lunar rover delivered by Luna-29 will be controlled by an anthropomorphic robot," the source said.
According to the source, this idea had emerged quite recently. He added that in the future, such moon rovers will be controlled by cosmonauts.
Russian space agency Roscosmos did not comment on this information.
In 1971-1972, the United States during the manned flights of the Apollo-15, Apollo-16 and Apollo-17 missions brought rovers, which were operated by astronauts, to the Moon. In 1970-1973, Soviet spacecraft Luna-17 and Luna-21 delivered lunar rovers to the Earth's natural satellite.
