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After a decade-long hiatus, Russia is relaunching an ambitious bid for dominion over the world's budding space tourism industry, jostling with zealous billionaires, the United States, and rising Chin…
MOSCOW: After a decade-long hiatus, Russia is relaunching an ambitious bid for dominion over the world's budding space tourism industry, jostling with zealous billionaires, the United States, and rising China.
The Fiery Chief Of Russia s Troubled Space Programme By Thibaut MARCHAND
04/09/21 AT 12:40 AM
Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia s troubled space agency Roscosmos, is hardly your typical bureaucrat.
Brash and brazen, the former diplomat has made his name with provocative tweets and boisterous claims.
But he is equally well-known for leading the once-prized Soviet space programme during years of corruption scandals and technological stagnation. Dmitry Rogozin has struggled to return Moscow s space programme to the glory days of 1961 when the Soviet Union launched the first man Yuri Gagarin into space Photo: AFP / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV
In 2014, Rogozin, then a deputy prime minister in charge of space, responded to Western sanctions on Russia with a tweet suggesting the United States could send its astronauts to space using a trampoline .