The Alliance to Rescue Civilization plans to build a permanent moon base to preserve DNA samples of all life on the earth and an encyclopedia of human knowledge.

拯救文明联盟拟建一个永久的月球基地，以保存地球上所有生命物质的基因样本和人类知识的百科全书。

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Nasa has been so keen to find water on the Moon because it brings the dream of a permanent lunar base one step closer.

美国宇航局一直渴望能够在月球上发现水，因为这样，月球变成一个永久性基地的梦想又近了一步。

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President Bush's plans for a return to the moon in 2020, with a trip to Mars to follow, were all well and good, but now NASA has finally fleshed out the details of the moon visits, and it seems a permanent international moon base is in the cards.

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Russia says it also remains committed to sending cosmonauts beyond Earth's orbit in the future, including to a permanent base on the moon that it says could be used as a future launching pad for flights to Mars.

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"We are planning to build a permanent base on the moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale delivery... of the rare isotope helium-3, " said Nikolai Sevastianov, head of Russian space vehicle manufacturer Energia, at a seminar in Moscow in January.

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