Russia Has Sights Set On Manned Moon Landing By 2030

New submitter techfun89 writes "Russia plans on sending cosmonauts to the moon as well as unmanned spacecraft to Mars, Jupiter and Venus by 2030. Considering the recent launch failures in Russia, these plans seem very ambitious. From the article: 'These ambitious spaceflight goals are laid out in a strategy document drawn up recently by Russia's Federal Space Agency (known as Roscosmos), the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported Tuesday (March 13). And there's more. Roscosmos wants a new rocket called Angara to become the nation's workhorse launch vehicle by 2020, replacing the venerable Soyuz and Proton rockets that have been carrying the load since the 1960s.'"

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Re:The races is on

[Lotana]

Russia loaded with cash?! Only because of high oil/natural gas prices and only a small percentage of the population pocketing the proceeds. I have doubts that oligarches are interested in the space race. As soon as the commodities crash again, Russia will go back to being dirt-poor once more anyway.

Poor Russia just can't get a break. Their history since the Mongol invasion can be summarised in five words: "It just kept getting worse". At least they haven't had another bloody revolution in quite a while (Fall of Soviet Union was surprisingly peaceful), though seeing how things currently are: it is comming eventually. It will most probably follow the same old pattern: brutal, followed up even worse regime.

Re:Risk to human life

[alienzed]

Human life is greatly overrated.