Russia plans to put a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade to supply its lunar space programme and a joint Russian-Chinese research station, as major powers rush to explore the earth's only natural satellite.
As often as not they were chasing Americans’ empty promises (and occasionally achieving the impossible as a result).
The hydrogen bomb, the probe into Venus, the Mirr Space Station… all launched in response to American campaigns.
But the USSR of the 60s/70s was a wildly different place from post collapse Nationalist Russia. They scraped much of their R&D infrastructure for parts under Yeltsin.
As often as not they were chasing Americans’ empty promises (and occasionally achieving the impossible as a result).
The hydrogen bomb, the probe into Venus, the Mirr Space Station… all launched in response to American campaigns.
But the USSR of the 60s/70s was a wildly different place from post collapse Nationalist Russia. They scraped much of their R&D infrastructure for parts under Yeltsin.