“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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      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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        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!