Sounds like they haven’t had sufficient funds to keep it in good repair, yet they’re announcing that after decomissioning the ISS they will launch their own Russia-only space station. Baloney?
Anyhow I feel they’re busy with other things right now and launching astronauts is not their #1 priority. But this could point to Russia’s economy/society crumbling more and more, so it’s still a net positive.
The only thing that really pisses me off here is that it will most likely play into Musky Melon’s hand.
Putin and his Oligarch buddies have been automatically looting their country for more than 30 years, and the long-term effects have been apparent for awhile, such as the poor condition of their military when it came time to fight a war again. Judging by the clues, their ability to be a true nuclear deterrent should be reassessed. If their nuclear silos are in similar shape to this launchpad, we don’t have a lot to worry about.
They’ll find a way to launch it. They’ll go back into the old Soviet mindset of throwing blini at a wall until something sticks sending cosmonaut after cosmonaut until they have a success and then pretend the others didn’t exist.
And they’ll fill the minds of young would-be cosmonauts full of propaganda and tell them that there was definitely no-one before them who died up there, especially not in pain or terror. Those were unmanned test missions. Strap yourself in, you’re going to space!
Sounds like they haven’t had sufficient funds to keep it in good repair, yet they’re announcing that after decomissioning the ISS they will launch their own Russia-only space station. Baloney?
Anyhow I feel they’re busy with other things right now and launching astronauts is not their #1 priority. But this could point to Russia’s economy/society crumbling more and more, so it’s still a net positive.
The only thing that really pisses me off here is that it will most likely play into Musky Melon’s hand.
Putin and his Oligarch buddies have been automatically looting their country for more than 30 years, and the long-term effects have been apparent for awhile, such as the poor condition of their military when it came time to fight a war again. Judging by the clues, their ability to be a true nuclear deterrent should be reassessed. If their nuclear silos are in similar shape to this launchpad, we don’t have a lot to worry about.
They’ll find a way to launch it. They’ll go back into the old Soviet mindset of
throwing blini at a wall until something stickssending cosmonaut after cosmonaut until they have a success and then pretend the others didn’t exist.And they’ll fill the minds of young would-be cosmonauts full of propaganda and tell them that there was definitely no-one before them who died up there, especially not in pain or terror. Those were unmanned test missions. Strap yourself in, you’re going to space!