“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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        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

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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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      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.

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          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.

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        You can downvote but it will still be just at true.

        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.

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          The space shuttle was 30 years after the space race homie. Also incorrect, NASA itself disagrees that it was Russia alone at fault.

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          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.