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Russian Moon Landing May Take As Many As Six Launches (examiner.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the we'll-get-there-eventually dept.

MarkWhittington writes: Russia has made no secret of its desire to land cosmonauts on the lunar surface sometime in the late 2020s. As the United States, at least for the current administration, has decided to bypass the moon in favor of Mars, Russia could move to wipe out the humiliation it suffered at the hands of NASA when it lost the 1960s race to the moon with the landing of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969. However, a story in TASS suggests that a Russian moon landing effort would be complex, requiring up to six launches of its Angara rocket.

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  1. They should have gone in '69 by transporter_ii · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently space travel was much easier back then.

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  2. Re: Resume the lunar program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That depends on which hopeless moron is elected to replace him. If it's Trump then I predict a change to a program to send people to Venus. It's a lot closer, is similarly sized to earth, and has a real atmosphere.

  3. Russian Roulette by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    They have six rockets, but only one of them is loaded.

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