The Russian Federal Space Agency plans creating a system of anti-asteroid protection after 2026, the agency's director Anatoly Perminov told a news conference on Friday.

As for the Federal Space Agency's plans Perminov said "we have prepared proposals of the space activity for the years to 2040".

"They have all aspects, including flights of the Moon and Mars. Now it is necessary to formulate the financial and resource support," he said.

The proposals envisage three stages.

The first, which is planned for the years to 2015, is completing the assembly of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, enhancing the effectiveness of the transportation system, and preparing a scientific-technological basis for further stages of the space program.

The making of means of delivery and a new-generation transportation system is a plan for the second stage.

Russia is going to extend the use of the International Space Station to 2020.

The third stage envisages preparing manned flights to the Moon and Mars by 2025.

The landing on the Moon is to be prepared by 2025, and the setting up of a base on the Moon in 2027-35, Perminov said.

The flight to Mars is planned after 2035.

The need to create a system of protection of the Earth from asteroids is prompted by computations by specialists, who say that asteroid Apophis is bound to fly at a 40,000-kilometer distance from the Earth in 2009, and there is a risk of it colliding with the Earth in 2036.