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Originally Posted by LewisM
Seriously, ONE failure of the system in a LONG time...
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ONE failure? Well... Please DO research! What about recent hole in a space ship that was fixed with epoxy? What about all recent launches that ended up in the Pacific Ocean? There is even a saying "Submerged Space Fleet" about all these launches. Seriously, there are lots of articles on wikipedia with all incidents and failures. NASA is in a process of replacing all RD-0210/0211 & RD-0213/0214 with BE-4 from Blue Origin. It's happening. Slowly, but happening. The current Soyuz is based on the R-7 rocket from 1957. Yes, it's a very robust and reliable rocket, but it's 50 years old. Proton-M is faulty because of low quality components were used recently. The only new rocket they've got is Angara which is 25 years old and had only two (2) successful launches.
With all these glory Soviet space program had, everything that's happening right now is really breaking my heart.
Sorry, I'll stay away from Russia vs Ukraine debates simply because:
1. I'm not from Russia.
2. I'm not from Ukraine.
(Yet I do speak Russian as all former soviet people)