Science
Russia wants to return to Venus, build reusable rocket – RFI
Moscow (AFP)
The head of Russia’s space agency said Friday that Roscosmos wants to return to Venus and bring back soil samples and build spacecraft that will surpass Elon Musk’s rockets.
Last week America’s first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico.
The mission was carried out jointly by NASA and Musk’s SpaceX. Its Falcon 9 rocket is semi-reusable.
“We are making a methane rocket to repla…
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