Cosmonaut: Russia Lacking Long-Term Space Strategy

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft in orbit

Russia Needs Long-Term Space Strategy To Remain Cosmic Superpower
RIA Novosti

Russia needs a long-term space strategy, otherwise it may lose its leadership in the space exploration sphere, Russian cosmonaut and former politician Yury Baturin has said.

“Unfortunately, Russia has no long-term space strategy. For some 15 or maybe 20 more years Russia will remain a space superpower, but after this period, Russia will become a second-league space power if a long-term space strategy is not adopted,” Baturin, a Lomonosov Moscow State University professor, said during his speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington on Tuesday.

Baturin was talking about his vision of space development in the next 100 years, which he had presented in his book entitled Cosmonautics of XXI Century.

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