Oh come on, that's not very accurate: He's a bad leader in every regard, let's not downplay the breadth of how shitty he is.
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The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous ~~space~~ leader
FTFY.
"space leader" sounds like a neat title.
It would be, as long as they weren't horrifically bad at it.
Oh I meant as a title for a real county that can do space things. Like if India lands their craft and all goes well, they can be the "space leader" then if say China or France does something cooler they get to be the "space leader".
russian federation is not even in the running anymore.
No title can beat the best job title in the world: Planetary Defense Officer, the person who leads the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) at NASA
Everything this guy touches turns to shit, so no surprise here.
Russia can't even build the soyuz right anymore. They keep sprining leaks. Wtf man.
the soviets managed to land on Venus and send photos back but this clown version of russia can't even land a trivial lander on the moon.
Russia is literally a clown state these days
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Saturday, the Russian space program lost the Luna 25 spacecraft, a relatively small vehicle that was due to land on the Moon this week.
But unlike NASA, China, India, and several companies in the United States and Japan, the Luna 25 effort does not presage the coming of a golden era of exploration for Russia.
Rather, it is more properly seen as the last gasp of a dying empire, an attempt by the modern state of Russia, and President Vladimir Putin, to revive old glories.
However, there have been some issues of late with leaks and other problems that have raised serious questions about quality control and the ability of the Russians to manufacture these vehicles.
Before the launch of Luna 25, Putin made it clear that this mission was important for Russia as a signal that the country was returning to great power status.
Sometimes such strength has been difficult to project, especially since Russia is flying the same vehicles as it did during Leonid Brezhnev's tenure as the Soviet ruler, and has only flown to the International Space Station for a quarter of a century.
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Shame about all those scientists who are about to jump out of Windows.
I think this is just the first part
While modern liberal capitalist Russia with its oligarchs and chud politicians can eat my shit and hair, a) Putin isn't personally responsible for the craft crashing, this is just "Bad thing happened, how do we blame it on Very Bad Man" which is just pathetic journalism, and b) lots of things go wrong with these kinds of missions all the time. Even the successful ones are like "Oh, awesome, our craft landed upside down, there's dust over the solar panels, and one of the legs is broken, but we otherwise have a connection? That's a big W in my book!"
I put a solid 80% of the blame on Gorbachev and Yeltsin for everything in the Russian state decaying after the disastrous fall of the USSR. Putin's far from innocent in terms of liberalization of the economy but he inherited it from those two dipshits.
Not sure you spent as much time reading the article as you did writing your reply.
This is ArsTechnica/Eric Berger, not "RagNewsInc©": they went into quite the amount of details and facts explaining Putin's direct contribution to Russia's space program current state of affairs.
Despite the title, it didn't read (to me) as much politically motived as you make it to be.
they shouldn't have let Putin build the rocket smdh
@SimulatedLiberalism@hexbear.net
I know this is up your alleyway, not sure if you have any detail to add
Not much actually, you’ve put it very succinctly.
I do however find it bad taste to blame a failure in scientific endeavor on a country’s political leadership (which to be fair, deserves to be criticized in many other ways) while ignoring the fact that after the Space Shuttle program fraught with disasters ended in 2011, Russian spacecrafts were the only means to send American astronauts to space for nearly a decade (with near accident-free record) until SpaceX came along. If the Russians weren’t reliable on their space technology, do you think the NASA would even think about booking the Soyuz flights? (Keep in mind that the Columbia disaster killed all 7 astronauts, NASA would not even have considered Russian space flights if the risks would involve repeating such disasters)
Finally, I think many people who live in the first world Western countries seriously underestimated the consequences of what the Washington-led neoliberal shock therapy did to post-Soviet Russia. Entire industries were being carved out and mass unemployment and poverty happened in just a few years leading to crimes and even child prostitution (which had practically been eliminated during the Soviet times) were simply unthinkable for most people.
The modern day Russia is the consequence of Western imperialism, period. You can blame all the reactionary elements in the country and laugh at their poverty, but this is what being defeated by imperialism looks like. It will take decades if not longer to recover economically, especially under unprecedented sanctions, and all that has to factor into a lunar lander program that they last tried 47 years ago, no?
All those rocket scientists better start running for the border.
Disastrous space-leader or disastrous-space leader?
The Soviet Union was truly ahead of its time.
Oh shit, I don't even need to look to know hexbears are getting spicy in the comments lmao
That was no failure! That was a successful lithobreaking maneuver!
The rapid unscheduled disassembly occurred exactly on schedule.
Meanwhile every destroyed endangered species habitat and every deregulated launch pad disaster at SpaceX is just a stepping stone toward saving humanity! 