Reuters Science News Summary
Published on: Dec. 26, 2025, 10:27 a.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
The ability to return, recover, and reuse a rocket's engine-packed first stage, or booster, after launch is crucial to reducing costs and making it easier for countries to send satellites into orbit, and to turn space exploration into a commercially viable business similar to civil aviation. Russia plans a nuclear power plant on the moon within a decade Russia plans to put a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade to supply its lunar space programme and a joint Russian-Chinese research station, as major powers rush to explore the earth's only natural satellite.
