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Canadian Space Agency and its partners developing plans for lunar space station
MONTREAL — The Canadian Space Agency is working to develop robotic arms as its contribution to a small lunar outpost to be built by international partners in the next decade.
Earlier this week, the American and Russian space agencies signed a statement on long-term space projects, which focus on the so-called deep space gateway.
The small space station would be placed in orbit between the Earth and the moon.
“For Canada, the challenge right now is to identify what our contribution could be to humanity’s next step in human exploration,” said Gilles Leclerc, the Canadian agency’s head of space exploration.