Is The Golden Age Of Russian Space Science Still Ahead?

by Lev Zeleny

Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
and Director of the RAS Institute of Space Research,

Moscow (RIAN) Sep 05, 2006

Despite the troubled times in the 1990s, Russia is still a great space power. It is enough to mention that it is the leader in the number of space launches, accounting for 40% of the world's carrier missile launches in the 2001-2005 period. Regrettably, the majority of them were commercial launches of foreign space vehicles, as well as Soyuz and Progress spaceships for supporting the International Space Station.

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