A rocket with a lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years
A rocket with a lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years
Russia launched Luna-25, its first moon mission in 50 years, to land on Earth's satellite ahead of India's Chandrayaan-3.
“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?
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Considering levels of corruption in the last few years and hard brain drain I guess Russian space exploration is doomed. Thanks, Putin!
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Foe years America used Russian rockets to get things into space.
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"Russian components, American components... ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
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People, not things. America didn't have man-rated rockets between 2012 and 2020.
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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.
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Um, I didn't know there were washing machines on the moon.