User:SimonHarvey/Sandbox/LEK Lunar Expeditionary Complex

The LEK Lunar Expeditionary Complex was a moon base that was proposed by Valentin Glushko of the former USSR in 1974 and was to be operational by 1980. It was proposed as a political response to the successful Apollo program which was apart of the space race between the United States of America and the USSR.

The moon base would be used for scientific and engineering purposes.

Project Termination

The project was terminated in 1976 when an Academy of Sciences Commission ruled that resources should be diverted to projects that would add economic value and not to activities whose core focus was national prestige.

References

• the LEK Lunar Expeditionary Complex at astronautix.com
• Russian space web