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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: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Monday September 24 2018, @07:53PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 24 2018, @07:53PM (#739367) Journal

    If you genuinely think that Russia's underwhelming rockets and less impressive space program make it somehow not as good as the U.S., I invite you to please consider that they can put people in space and the U.S. can't, and it's been that way for a long time. The U.S. has performed in fits and starts, some really good ("That's one small step for a man..."), some not that great ("Hey, I know, let's discontinue these Shuttles with no replacement even while we have personnel in space; let them call a taxi or something"). Meanwhile Russia has quietly been (and yet remains) a steady, reliable performer.

    It's not the US's space program that is relevant here, but US private industry. A big part of Russia's capabilities comes from its launch systems. Those aren't keeping up with SpaceX.

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