The focus is wavering and it is hard to make sense of much that is being said beyond: Soyuz kept bringing cosmonauts into space for 9 years - true - and SpaceX / the US would do well not to bury them just yet or disparage the accomplishments of the Soyuz program.
Fair points and all that, but the tone in this is strangely personal and even a bit whiny somehow. Just not what one would expect from an official communication at that level of responsibility. Then again, if you look at Musk's tweets some days, it can be quite a strange experience. Fun times in the space industry.
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#12> The new American spacecraft are more than double the weight of a Soyuz while offering only one additional seat. Is this true? The launch mass of a Soyuz capsule is about 7000kg and the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-1 launch mass was about 12000kg so not "more than double" however Demo-1 didn't include astronauts. The Crew Dragon can theoretically carry several tonnes of cargo to the ISS in addition to 4 astronauts.
Also, it was originally designed to carry 7 astronauts -- but NASA wanted a different seat position for stress reduction.
(I'm kind of glad that it doesn't carry 7, the more people that are on a flight, the more casualties you get if there is a failure).
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#13Is this satire? It appears to be the real Roscosmos website, and yet this press release reads like the response of a child that – in an attempt to suppress tears after being second in a competition – lashes out defensively and throws around insults and excuses. I'm trying to think of a less demeaning adjective, but the most fitting that comes to mind is "butt-hurt".
Ah, I see is first time experiencing Russian loss. Is normal response to losing.
Was there a competition? I assume US will use their own tech if possible even if is more risky to avoid the dependency on Russia.
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#15Wow, there's so much... negativity in this post by Rogozin. It reads like "sour grapes": " Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although it leaped with all its strength. As it went away, the fox remarked 'Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.'" [a] People who speak disparagingly of the accomplishments of others would do well to apply this…
Thanks for providing that! I had no idea about the roots of that expression.
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#16To be fair though you should count reusables as a different class of rocket which SpaceX has the lead if we're counting successful launches. Does Soyuz recycle any parts of launched rockets?
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#17Is this satire? It appears to be the real Roscosmos website, and yet this press release reads like the response of a child that – in an attempt to suppress tears after being second in a competition – lashes out defensively and throws around insults and excuses. I'm trying to think of a less demeaning adjective, but the most fitting that comes to mind is "butt-hurt".
Despite it being written in English, I think this letter is intended for a more domestic audience.
Comparing Russia to the USA is like comparing potatoes to oranges. One is a child of royalty, chasing their dreams and living the in the lap of luxury while the other is a child of poverty, struggling for most of their life, a fleeting moment of success before their past catches up to them.
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#18Is this satire? It appears to be the real Roscosmos website, and yet this press release reads like the response of a child that – in an attempt to suppress tears after being second in a competition – lashes out defensively and throws around insults and excuses. I'm trying to think of a less demeaning adjective, but the most fitting that comes to mind is "butt-hurt".
Ah, I see is first time experiencing Russian loss. Is normal response to losing.
I wonder if Russia has indeed just lost the international market for manned space flights.
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#19This sounds really whiney... almost like Trump drafted it for him.
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#20Sadly Russia culturally and technologically is not a successor to USSR. Its space program is in shambles. Soyuz was designed in the '60s and Russia's space program can't offer anything new. That happens when you pay your engineers 150$ per month(floor cleaner at McDonald's makes $250) while Rogozin gets 400k$ per year (that's only the official number...), double of what NASA director makes.
Humanity needs a way to access space and we can't rely on the relics of old Soviet technology for that (no matter how great it was, we are rapidly losing the knowledge of it).