Russia plans missions to Mars and the Moon

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Unfortunately, so far most of Roskosmos's most expensive projects are failing. The same Fobos-Grunt satellite that should had brought the examples of Fobos's surface to Earth hadn't lasted a week - and it was being prepared for like twenty years, I guess.

Those numbers are totally random like any officially voiced numbers in Russia.

In the meanwhile, those putting too much hopes on the development of Russian space industry should keep in mind, that there were hardly large successes in country's operations lately. Russia can still offer space freighter, but far space missions and complex projects like the one NASA maintains on Mars are something out of reach.

And I do agree that when it comes to space science, the wide cooperation between institutes and agencies saves a lot of time and money, astronomical sums of money to be precise. But I guess that's something in controversy with purely ideological matters.

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