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60 years after Gagarin, Russia lags in the space race – Macau Business
Sixty years after the Soviet Union made history by launching Yuri Gagarin into space on April 12, 1961, Russia continues…

A station on the moon! A mission to Venus! A next generation spacecraft!
Sixty years after the Soviet Union made history by launching Yuri Gagarin into space on April 12, 1961, Russia continues to have lofty extraterrestrial ambitions, but its ability to realise them is more down to earth.
Project after project has been announced and then delayed, as grand designs fall victim to funding problems or bureaucratic inertia. The Kremlin’s attention meanwhile is fixed on military ventures rather than…
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