The Russian equivalent of NASA has announced plans to permanently station 12 cosmonauts in a secret base on the moon.
It might sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but the very real plan is likely to leave politicians from the West feeling both shaken and stirred.
The space agency RosCosmos has spent years working on its lunar base scheme and has slowly released tantalising details of the plans.
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