While it has bounced back from its post-Soviet collapse and once again become a major world player, the Russian space sector has recently suffered a series of humiliating failures. And now, massive corruption scandals at state space agency Roscosmos have eclipsed its plans to launch new rockets and lunar stations. - More money, more corruption -Rebooting the space sector is a matter of prestige for the Kremlin. "Today, the space sector works like this: give us money and we will launch something -- one day," Yegorov said. Russia's scientific community has criticised Rogozin, who is a journalism graduate, for his lack of knowledge of the space sector.

Source: Bangkok Post May 28, 2019 04:07 UTC