Russia's Lavochkin offers Moon boost to China

Russia's Lavochkin Science&Production Association (NPO) has offered an upgraded propulsion module developed in the 1980s for Phobos and Mars spacecraft to be used as the basis of a future Chinese moon probe. Officials from Lavochkin and China's Academy of Launch Vehicles met here last week to...

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