Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced in an interview that among the leading priority strategic objectives is not only the protection of the Earth from space hazards, but also the search for extraterrestrial civilizations.

"I, of course, as any Earthling dream in order to find out whether life [somewhere] in addition to the Earth. Fundamentally, it is an interesting mission," declared Deputy Prime Minister. He said that developments in this direction should be engaged and the other powers, and not only Russia that it should be the value for all the inhabitants of the Earth.

Also, protection from cosmic threats is vitally urgent priority. Meteor streams multiple and essentially nothing protects them from the Earth. "No one knows what can be found in five to ten years, and do we have the scientific and technical capability of knowing about the dangerous approach in a couple of years another body to our planet, to be able to turn this body from the surface of the Earth," - said Rogozin.

In the end you want to display the number of spacecraft, which will allow the country to proactively anticipate all sorts of dangers that threaten our security. In addition to meteorites, it has to protect, and from space and rocket attacks, and counter intelligence work against the Russian Federation, informs RIA Novosti news Agency referring to an interview on the TV channel "Russia-24". This summer Dmitry spoke about the readiness of our country to cooperate with China for joint exploration of Mars and the moon.
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