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vladi, why didnt you tell us?

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Jone in about 2018" says Putin, in Planning
for Russian Manned Exploration of Mars
toy , Space. corn Senior Writer I December 07. 2015 ET
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#3 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]

welp, looks like we got us a space race boys

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#4 to #3 - roannoke (12/27/2015) [-]

Bout ****** time. Been WAY too long since we had a good dick measuring contest that propels humanity into a new age of technological revolution

#8 - comicexplain (12/27/2015) [-]

Explains why the space program's finally being hyper-funded, yeah?

#9 to #8 - sladee ONLINE (12/27/2015) [-]

We cold war now

#14 to #9 - xxsikoticxx (12/27/2015) [-]

fine by me, cold war's dick measuring contest advanced **** far more than the recent decades

#5 - wltwitch (12/27/2015) [-]

Dammit NASA better have some good plans so we beat them Russian bastards to Mars.

#6 to #5 - boomroastd (12/27/2015) [-]

sorry too expensive

#17 to #6 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-22/musk-s-spacex-returns-to-space-in-first-launch-since-june-blast

Cheaper Launches
Booster rockets have typically been left to tumble back to Earth after launch, leaving them broken up by the intense heat of re-entering the atmosphere. Landing them upright could help winnow the cost of access to space by 100-fold, Musk has estimated, since the bulk of launch costs comes from building a rocket that flies only once.

#18 to #17 - boomroastd (12/27/2015) [-]

>>#16

#15 to #6 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]

sorry to burst your bubble, but it is not that expensive anymore.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgaWHnY2Ph8

#16 to #15 - boomroastd (12/27/2015) [-]

its a reference to the movie "the martian" in where the person in the picture doesn't want to green light a rescue mission to mars Kinda sort of Martian spoilers

#7 - thatoneiranianguy ONLINE (12/27/2015) [-]

Except that the Russians have been talking about doing this **** for years now and it's never actually happened.

Russia doesn't have the economy or is in the position to do it by that date at all.

#11 to #7 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]

Russia is in a position for extended economic growth for about the next 10-15 years until the effects of their demographic crisis set in. While this is definitely a bit of aggrandizement, it's not totally out of the question.

Russia experienced lower than normal birth rates around the time of the fall of the USSR and that drop took a long time to recover and because of this Russia is facing a shrinking population, which will have an effect on both the economic and social social sectors. This is called Russia's Demographic Crisis.

#10 to #7 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]

That didn't stop them from being the first in space.

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#13 to #10 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]

They 'won' by chucking up a useless hunk of metal who's greatest achievement was beeping every so often. The US had the same capability at the time but decided they actually wanted to put something useful up.

#12 - anon (12/27/2015) [-]

Yeah, Russia is crippled from economic sanctions and can't even afford to buy the new tanks they've been dick-waving about but sure, they can totally afford to go to Mars in 2018.

FYI The bigger a claim Russia makes in the News, the more ****** up and weak they are behind the scenes.