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I'm betting the Russians are getting by with far less than 12 billion dollars equivalent per year and with inferior technology at that.
"inferior" how?
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RKA have a budget of about $1B a year, in PPP that's worth about $2B internally.
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RKA have a budget of about $1B a year, in PPP that's worth about $2B internally.
There you go.
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And the Russians accomplish almost exactly nothing. Tourists or NASA even pay for the majority of the Soyuz vehicles.
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AFAIK besides a new ISS module the only other project the Russians have is the Phobos sample return mission
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That doesn't mean the Russian technology is by any means Inferior. The Soyuz has had a longer run than any of the other spacecraft.
In regard to the topic of the thread, I think NASA could do with a lot more money and I'd prefer If they spent the money that was wasted on Iraq to getting us closer to Mars, Moon etc etc
Budget constraints meant that many great NASA programs got axed or delayed...
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