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As being ex-Soviet and always into astronomy, space exploration etc. I'd say this is the very last nail into Russian space exploration coffin. First sputnik, first man in space, first woman in space, first man in open space, first, first, first etc. Lots of great achievements. Seriously. Then it was US moon landing and that's where the declination slowly started. Just very slowly. The next huge mistake was Russian space shuttle. And now the last 15-10 years it was falling at 10m/s^2. Now I can say - the Soviet/Russian era in space is over. RIP.
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