SPACE/RUSSIA: A Fair Concern About the Future

[dewline]

"So now we must demonstrate what we are really made of. Are we really worthy of the glory of Gagarin?"

They can be worthy. But I worry that Putinism will be an obstacle to that here.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/with-dragon-russian-critic-says-roscosmos-acting-left-behind/

Comments

[thewayne]

The people in the program are motivated, but the kleptocrats, who are Putin's cronies, have siphoned out so much money that for now, the Russian space program is not in good shape.

[dewline]

And forcing SUP to move Livejournal's server farms from San Francisco to Moskva was about containing how much the people there can learn about the rest of us humans and what we're doing...

[thewayne]

Yep. It also gives him an additional internal social media site for the times he pulls the internet plug on Russia and disconnects them from the rest of the world.