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The Russian Space Agency said Tuesday that it would send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015 from a new launch pad in the Far East. The head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, told Russian news agencies that the rocket booster would deliver a 1,100-pound space exploration vehicle with up to 55 pounds of scientific equipment to search for water and take soil samples. He said the spacecraft would be launched from the new Vostochny cosmodrome, in the Amur Region not far from China. Russia’s last unmanned moon mission was in 1976. The Russian Space Agency said Tuesday that it would send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015 from a new launchpad in the Far East. The head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, told Russian news agencies that the rocket booster would deliver a 1,100-pound space exploration vehicle with up to 55 pounds of scientific equipment to search for water and take soil samples. He said the spacecraft would be launched from the new Vostochny cosmodrome, in the Amur Region not far from China. Russia’s last unmanned moon mission was in 1976.