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The pace at which Space X is designing , developing , manufacturing and launching new generation cost effective space craft is astonishing, I doubt whether Russia will be a serious contender for the future multi planetary program ( Moon / Mars )
Their space shuttle program in the late 80’s “Buran” to compete with the US shuttle program was a flop , one unmanned flight then the program was mothballed.They have been launching the same type of hardware for decades now , very reliable but limited in future capabilities
The US now have a fully budgeted space program with Congress support ( so far )
It will be interesting to follow development of this Russian “falcon 9” copy
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after 90-s whole Russian space program is just cannibalizing on what has left from USSR
Musk even wrote in his book that he tried to buy two rockets for them and the deal blow off just because they wanted more money to steal from the deal.