A rocket with a lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years
“Study of the moon is not the goal,” said Vitaly Egorov, a popular Russian space analyst. “The goal is political competition between two superpowers — China and the USA — and a number of other countries which also want to claim the title of space superpower.”
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I don't question Russian science or engineering, but is this project going to run into the same sorts of issues their war has?
I think this mission is their desperate attempt to have a success so Putin doesn't draft half their workforce and tell the rest to start launching Soyuz rockets at Ukranian preschools
Except the time when Rogozin was in charge, at least.
Considering levels of corruption in the last few years and hard brain drain I guess Russian space exploration is doomed. Thanks, Putin!
Foe years America used Russian rockets to get things into space.
"Russian components, American components... ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
RussianSovietPeople, not things. America didn't have man-rated rockets between 2012 and 2020.
No Russia beat the us in almost every metric for space flight, we got to the moon first and that's all anyone remembers.
They're a lot of things but their space program is pretty boss.
You can downvote but it will still be just at true.
America and our German scientists, and Russia and their German scientists...
Let's not act like operation paperclip wasn't a rat race for both.
They didn't steal German tech, Germany caused two worlds wars and war prizes were taken including technology and scientists.
Setting aside the fact that looting a country you beat in a war is still very much stealing, Germany didn't cause the great war and if you understood an iota of history you'd realize that. Did they use it to advance their own causes and take land/resources? Yeah. Pretty much the standard MO for every country that's ever been in a war, though. Weird to single them out for their actions in WW1 in that regard.
No, it isn't. Space Shuttle for one thing, many Telescopes, Sat's...and so on. Russia hasn't done shit. Even the ISS Modules from Russia are crap and the ones that make the most problems.
The space shuttle was 30 years after the space race homie. Also incorrect, NASA itself disagrees that it was Russia alone at fault.
Sure and that was iirc a mismatch error between the station and pod. Russian parts connect to Russian parts pretty well, connecting them to anything else is.... Iffy.
Um, I didn't know there were washing machines on the moon.
Hm, not sure what this reminds me of
I’d rather a space race over an arms race
But sadly we’d probably just end up with both regardless.
A space race is an arms race with people on the missile.
The best race
Putin just needs more points to legitimize next year's "elections": The space exploration is reborn!