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Russia’s space agency has proposed a space exploration plan through 2030, including missions to the Moon and Mars.

Competition rules! Russia’s space agency has proposed a space exploration plan through 2030, including missions to the Moon and Mars, in an effort to catch up with the U.S.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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6 comments

  • wodun

    China has plans to go to the moon. Russia has plans to go to the moon and we have plans to go to… hrmm… to go to… We have plans to go to…

  • Kelly Starks

    When has Russia ever followed through with the cool sounding plans the Russian space agency proposed?

  • Chris Kirkendall

    Don’t the Russians have a plan for a Circumlunar flight around the Moon (not a landing) within a few years? Of course, no guarantee they’ll pull that off, but they seem to think they have the ability to do so now or very soon. The Chinese might not achieve their goals anytime soon, either – but I’d rather at least have some sort of realistic plan rather than “We have plans to go to…”, as wodun says ! ! Pertty obvious this current Admin has next to NO interest in manned spaceflight, unless it can be turned into something related to GloBULL Warming or whatever…

  • Kelly Starks

    The Circumlunar flight was one a tourist form was contracting from them. I.E. if the tourist firm could get 2 tourists to fork over enoughto pay for the flight – the Russians would fly it with them onboard.

  • Chris Kirkendall

    Right – that’s the one I was thinking of. Well, who knows if they can pull it off. As long as they have the ability to boost a Soyuz from Earth-orbit to translunar, no reason it couldn’t be done – pretty cramped quarters for a trip that long, but then again, the Apollo guys did it. Does anyone know how interior space of Soyuz compares to Apollo? Roughly the same? More? Less?

  • Kelly Starks

    >…Does anyone know how interior space of Soyuz compares to Apollo?

    Much much smaller. You could pretty much put a Soyuz reentry capsule in a Apollo capsule without bending the consulo. Also, the Soyuz quality levels are decline as Russia is losing the ability to sustain the infrastructure.

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