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posted by chromas on Monday September 24 2018, @05:12PM   Printer-friendly

Russia throws doubt on joint lunar space station with U.S.: RIA

Moscow may abandon a project to build a space station in lunar orbit in partnership with U.S. space agency NASA because it does not want a "second fiddle role," a Russian official said on Saturday.

[...] [The] head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said Russia might exit the joint program and instead propose its own lunar orbit space station project.

[...] A spokesman for Roscosmos said later that Russia had no immediate plans to leave the project. "Russia has not refused to take part in the project of the lunar orbit station with the USA," Vladimir Ustimenko was quoted as saying by the TASS news agency.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday September 24 2018, @07:38PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday September 24 2018, @07:38PM (#739358) Journal

    The U.S. does it because it's "cheap" and goes to the ISS, which the U.S. is committed to. Once the U.S. finally cuts its dependence on Russian vehicles, a large chunk of Russian space activity will evaporate.

    The U.S. continues to lead the world on space science. Look at this timeline:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Solar_System_exploration [wikipedia.org]

    Can you find Russia's last successful solar system science mission?

    Trick question. The Soviet Union successfully launched Vega 1 and Vega 2 in December 1984. The Russian Federation has had no successful Russia-led missions, and two big failures: Mars 96 and Fobos-Grunt. The U.S. has launched TESS, InSight, and the Parker Solar Probe just this year.
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