“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.”
I don’t question Russian science or engineering, but is this project going to run into the same sorts of issues their war has?
Roscosmos has been one of the better run Russian agencies, mostly due to the fact that they’re using old but extremely proven technology from the Soviet era
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!”
People, not things. America didn’t have man-rated rockets between 2012 and 2020.
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.
We feared them, because they put up Sputnik, which, by the way, people forget was an emptied out casing of an intercontinental ballistic missile. And, Sputnik itself means “Fellow Traveler”, so it’s all peaceful, but it was a ballistic missile head, without explosives. So that was a signal, and we freaked in America. So NASA got founded, on the fear factor of Sputnik.
Alright, so we then go to the moon on the fear factor that Russia will control the high ground. Then we go to the moon, space enthusiasts say, “Oh, we’re on the moon by '69, we’ll be on Mars in another 10 years.” They completely did not understand why we got to the moon in the first place. We were at war, once we saw that Russia was not ready to land on the moon, we stopped going to the moon. That should not surprise anybody looking back on it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The best race
Putin just needs more points to legitimize next year’s “elections”: The space exploration is reborn!
