“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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    1 year ago

    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.