Will Russia still be able to do this?
It’s expected their population is basically going be halved in about 50 years.
Its amazing. The country is planning a moon colony and they cannot pay their own scientists.
Well, planning is one thing. Being able to carry it out is another. I don’t see technology as the big impediment so much as other pressing needs are likely to restrict it to the realm of a pipe dream.
Could be wrong, of course.
Funny; I always thought MSNBC was the network from Mars....or was it Uranus?
Here’s my different take.
In 1980 or so, Reagan precipitated the fall of the Soviet Union by pushing them with a huge defense initiative—Star Wars—which they felt they had to match, but were economically unable to do. Economic over-reach put a lot of stress on the old USSR.
The US has long felt it has to match every showy, prestigious initiative. If a Russian-Chinese space program were advertised, and we tried to match it in our current economic straits, it cause us a good deal of economic strain. Cloward-Pliven by a different name?
Yup, and Newt was called an idiot or crazy for the US doing it.
Yeah, sure they will, Ray.