Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon

An anonymous reader writes: Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, has announced it intends to bring humans to the Moon by roughly 2030. Russia plans a full-scale exploration of the Moon's surface. Agency head Oleg Ostapenko said that by the end of the next decade, "based on the results of lunar surface exploration by unmanned space probes, we will designate [the] most promising places for lunar expeditions and lunar bases.

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So wait

[kilodelta]

They'll get there 61 years after American boots have been all over the surface of the moon. We can tell them been there, done that, got the space suit.

And think - the Apollo space program came up in approximately seven years. The Russians are going to take sixteen years to do theirs. Best wishes! I wonder if they'll salute the American flags we've left behind?

Re:Because that makes sense

[Anonymous Coward]

Spoken like someone who wasn't actually alive during the Space Race.

The US is pretty bad now as far as foreign invasions and local human rights, but have you any fucking idea how they treated much of the population in the '60s? Or maybe you were an upper-middle class white boy, in which case, congratulations, you now have nearly all of the power instead of all of the power.