Putin announces plan to boost Russia's troubled space program with $50bn investment and new cosmodro
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[quote]President Vladimir Putin on Friday unveiled a new $50 billion drive for Russia to preserve its status as a top space power, including the construction of a brand new cosmodrome from where humans will fly to space by the end of the decade.
Fifty-two years to the day since Yuri Gagarin became the Soviet Union's greatest hero by making the first human flight into space, Putin inspected the new Vostochny (Eastern) cosmodrome Russia is building in the Amur region of its Far East district.
The Russian space programme has been hurt in recent years by a string of launch failures of unmanned probes and satellites, but Putin vowed Moscow would ramp up spending.
The head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, meanwhile said Moscow was targeting 2030 as the year in which it could begin creating a base on the moon for flights to Mars.[/quote]
The yearly average ($7.4 billion) of this plan is still far lower than NASA's current budget of $17.7 billion, but higher than the current Russian space budget of $5.6 billion and ESA's $5.38 billion
Looks like Firefly got that English-Chinese mix wrong, it'll actually be Russian-Chinese
[editline]12th April 2013[/editline]
And that's a really awe-inspiring image :v:
yay go science and spy satellites!
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At least putin gets SOMETHING right
In before space race esc type of event within the decade.
Space race V2 pleeeeeease
Hope it's worth it. Because a lot of people will get pissed if even with that amount of money satellites (not even new experimental ones, proven ones) will continue to crash into the ocean as often as they do now.
Good ol' Russia, keeping up a fine tradition of space exploration.
Sputnik 2.0
[QUOTE]he also did not rule out the creation of a ministry of space.[/QUOTE]
We need another Space Race. Perhaps Russia can help again. We know China's gonna be in on it.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40260048]We need another Space Race. Perhaps Russia can help again. We know China's gonna be in on it.[/QUOTE]
The space race was fueled by military and ideological competition, not friendly, "hey, wanna race?". Such an atmosphere was and would be as dangerous as it would be progressive in the field.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40260097]The space race was fueled by military and ideological competition, not friendly, "hey, wanna race?". Such an atmosphere was and would be as dangerous as it would be progressive in the field.[/QUOTE]
The "Fuck China" attitude needs to be encouraged in the United States.. to rally the people to the space Race.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40260097]The space race was fueled by military and ideological competition, not friendly, "hey, wanna race?". Such an atmosphere was and would be as dangerous as it would be progressive in the field.[/QUOTE]
Yes but this one wouldn't be dickwaving to see who's rocket can go further, it'd be dickwaving to see who can find a weapon just as devastating as a nuke, but then float it above your enemy in space.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40260105]The "Fuck China" attitude needs to be encouraged in the United States.. to rally the people to the space Race.[/QUOTE]
I don't think the US, or the world for that matter, needs the diplomatic, militaristic and economic tensions that evolved through the mid 20th century.
Yeah, it got us to the moon. But it also brought us the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet-Afghan War, the crushing of the Czech, Polish and Hungarian uprisings.
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Yeah, it got us to the moon. But it also brought us the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet-Afghan War, the crushing of the Czech, Polish and Hungarian uprisings.[/QUOTE]
It was worth it. Besides, we also got Tetris out of it.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40260147]It was worth it. Besides, we also got Tetris out of it.[/QUOTE]
One step on the moon, a million or so deaths across the world in several decade's time.
Worth it.
[QUOTE=Jeep-Eep;40260762][video=youtube;A71wdsTqkfM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A71wdsTqkfM[/video]
Thread music.[/QUOTE]
I thought that was the Soviet anthem, and the Russian one was the same music just without lyrics.
[QUOTE=gudman;40259522]Hope it's worth it. Because a lot of people will get pissed if even with that amount of money satellites (not even new experimental ones, proven ones) will continue to crash into the ocean as often as they do now.[/QUOTE]
What?
[QUOTE=CubeManv2;40259066]In before space race esc type of event within the decade.[/QUOTE]
never going to happen, i hope im wrong, but i think western society is far too cynical now to properly throw themselves at it.
[editline]13th April 2013[/editline]
but then again, i wouldnt have expected russia to do this
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