China and Russia unveil joint plan for lunar space station

Russian space agency Roscosmos and Chinese counterpart CNSA to develop research facilities on surface of moon or in its orbit

Russia and China have unveiled plans for a joint lunar space station, with the Russian space agency Roscosmos saying it has signed an agreement with China's National Space Administration (CNSA) to develop a complex of experimental research facilities created on the surface and/or in the orbit of the moon".

The CNSA, for its part, said the project was open to all interested countries and international partners" in what experts said would be China's biggest international space cooperation project to date.