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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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!