Russia Adding $50 Billion To Space Effort
Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled today a new $50 billion effort to maintain and extend the country’s space capabilities. Part of this initiative is a new spaceport located in Russia, which will lead to the first manned launches from Russian soil in 2018. Manned launches currently originate from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
On one hand, it’s nice to see that they are at least pretending to pick the good causes. On the other hand, it sad that history shows that very little of these money, if any at all, will make it to the space programs. Most of it will disappear in the same way as before…