Did Russia Claim Venus? Too Bad They Can't Afford To Visit It Any More
Hell Is in Space and It Belongs to Russia, Roscosmos Chief Says, Gizmmodo
“Our country was the first and only one to successfully land on Venus,” Rogozin told attendees at the 2020 HeliRussia exhibition, according to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency. “The [Russian] spacecraft gathered information about the planet — it is like hell over there.” “We believe that Venus is a Russian planet,” Rogozin added. “Both agencies have historically struggled with funding. … The Russian government has slashed funding for Roscosmos repeatedly in recent years, even as it’s facing pressure from competitors like SpaceX who offer cheaper, reusable rockets. Rogozin has offered a lot of bluster about Roscosmos’ capabilities despite the cuts, but this week he admitted that insufficient funding was taking a toll. “I don’t quite understand how to work in these conditions,” Rogozin said. “We are seeing that leading foreign space agencies are increasing their budgets.” Going to hell just isn’t as easy as it used to be.”
Funny the way he forgets that NASA landed too…
Rogozin is wrong. One of the Pioneer Venus Multiprobes made it to the surface in December 1978 and transmitted data for over an hour.
I will trade them ownership of Venus for the Mars system any day.?
I agree. I forget who said it: Venus has too much of what you need; Mars has too little.
The next probe to Venus will probably loiter in the atmosphere rather than going to the surface. Sagan may yet be vindicated in his theory of life in the upper atmosphere of Venus
Fine. I presume that means we get Luna, Mars, Jupiter (and by extension, all of its moons, including Europa and Ganymede) as well as Saturn’s moon Titan? Well, perhaps we get joint custody of Titan with our European colleagues.
I’m not sure if the Galileo atmospheric probe gives a basis for a claim on the moons of Jupiter. But the Cassini spacecraft did take data during its final entry into Saturn’s atmosphere. So if we’re ignoring the Outer Space Treaty and counting atmospheric probes, I think we’ve got a basis for a claim to Saturn. But given the distribution of work involved, I think Titan would fairly go to Europe.
How typical this is for them to pronounce themselves the first one. Maybe this is the reason USA wants to build their own ship for space flight and not use USSR.
cool