November 15, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Roscosmos head says Russia will stick with ISS as long as possible
Translation: Russia’s own proposed space station won’t launch this decade (surprise) and it is likely it won’t launch next decade either.
- Head of Russia’s Energia, which runs all of Roscosmos’ manned missions, predicts first Russian on Moon in next decade
And if you believe that I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you cheap.
- Today is the anniversary of the only flight of Russia’s space shuttle, Buran
That shuttle never flew again, and was finally destroyed when the roof of its storage hanger fell on it in 2002.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Roscosmos head says Russia will stick with ISS as long as possible
Translation: Russia’s own proposed space station won’t launch this decade (surprise) and it is likely it won’t launch next decade either.
- Head of Russia’s Energia, which runs all of Roscosmos’ manned missions, predicts first Russian on Moon in next decade
And if you believe that I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you cheap.
- Today is the anniversary of the only flight of Russia’s space shuttle, Buran
That shuttle never flew again, and was finally destroyed when the roof of its storage hanger fell on it in 2002.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
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I believe that a Russian cosmonaut might land on the moon in the ’30s. But it will be as a ride-along on a Chinese mission.
The web is all the Twitter that SpaceX has gotten final approval for the second starship test lunch, and will launch on Friday. What say you, Mr. Zimmerman?
Paul Revere: It might pay to read my website to find out. :)
I always thought the Energiya-Buran stack looked futuristic.
And now, a big RLV is about to fly that resembles Rocketship X-M….
I never would have guessed.
An entire installment of Quick space links covering the badly faded glory of the once-formidable Soviet space program and the Potemkin PR of its sad Russian remnant. I don’t recall if this is the first such, but I suspect it will not be the last.
David Eastman,
The only Russian likely to tread the lunar surface in future is one who is either a naturalized American in the employ of SpaceX or a ticket buyer of passage to Luna via that company’s Starship. At the rate the PRC economy is rattling to pieces, it seems all but impossible that that nation will ever get even one of its own nationals to the Moon, never mind any representatives of its mendicant lunar base “allies.”
Jeff Wright,
Rocket XM indeed. Who would have guessed that Hollywood production designers of the late 40s and early 50s would prove better prophets of the future shape of real space travel than the aerospace engineers of legacy aerospace?