More than 60 years on from its Soviet era heyday - launching the first dog and then the first man into space - Russia is on the backfoot as old and new global competitors embark on the international space race.
into the moon at the weekend, bringing home a bitter truth that its space program is not what it once was.
A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 during its flight to the moon shows the mission emblem and the bucket of the lunar manipulator complex.“The space race of today, it’s nothing like in the 60s and 70s. Then, it was a two horse race with one goal.
“Instead of the planned 84 seconds, it worked for 127 seconds. This was the main reason for the emergency,” Borisov told Russian state news channel Russia 24.“The negative experience of interrupting the lunar program for almost 50 years is the main reason for the failures,” Borisov said, adding “it would be the worst decision ever” for Russia to end the program now.
More than six decades on, Russia’s economy is shrinking in the face of ongoing Western sanctions resulting from its continued war on Ukraine, which also prompted the European Space Agency last year to end its partnership with Russia on a rover mission to Mars. Moore said the space race of today was no longer defined by simply “getting a person on the surface” and bringing them home as it was during the 60s and 70s.“Then, it was an outright two-country battle for geopolitical superiority. There was no talk about any sustained sort of existence on the moon...this time, it’s more about having that sort of conveyor belt, that sustainability between the earth and the moon,” she said.
“Locating large amounts of water on the moon is a really good thing if, in the future you want to get fuel, have sustained life or sustained human ecosystems situated on the moon,” Moore added.
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