It would be, as long as they weren’t horrifically bad at it.

Yes. This is the downfall of every powerful man who surrounds himself with yes men. His advisers probably told him that if they invade Ukraine, the leadership would flee and he could install a puppet. They didn’t expect him to actually do it.

There’s been a lot of chatter that he is seriously ill (I’ve heard cancer or Parkinson, but who knows what it really is) - people who’ve analyzed the recent photos say they see swelling in his hands/wrists which could indicate the use of strong steroids which are known to alter thought processes that could explain his recent believe that he could win a conflict with Ukraine and beat India to the south pole of the moon (concurrently no less).

I’m honestly impressed that russia admitted the landing failed at all, I figured they would have simply kept quiet. I guess they know we have strong enough telescopes to see the crash site? Who knows lol

the soviets managed to land on Venus and send photos back but this clown version of russia can’t even land a trivial lander on the moon.

Russia is literally a clown state these days

The rapid unscheduled disassembly occurred exactly on schedule.

On other news, the Sandoval family from equator just opened the first Mexican restaurant in space. It’s not cultural appropriation because reasons. But yeah, it took a good decade of collecting duds from 4rth of July celebrations, candles from McDonald’s quick parties, and aluminum cans from football games. They did loose tio Alberto de la Torre on the glorious flight of Condor1. Rest in piece tio! But after a few more test flights, they got cousin Freddy to try his luck. Freddy made it out of the planet with only two huevos Fritos lost. His huevos were sorely missed, but once he cut them off and got loose, he was able to steer the …what do you call a used UPS truck with a bunch of rockets attached to the back of it? Anyway, Freddy saw the Russian rocket. Okay he says he’s sorry for the minor bump… Well, we’re not sure what he’s saying right now, it’s too far. But we assume that he’s making good burritos right now. According to his current trajectory, he will come back one day. We assume he’s using the Russian parts to fix his radio. Last time he called, we only heard “ahhh!”. He was probably referring to the ruzzian rocket…“ahhh ruzzian rocket”. Anyway my people who aren’t Mexican, why would you even open a Mexican restaurant? Just open a restaurant and call it something unique and interesting. How about “the equator pizzeria” or “El suchi Equaroriano!” But regardless, the ESA…Equayorian Space Agency, has been doing great work no? Soon, Novelas3 will be launching. It will be an SMS satellite 🛰️ that will spam…allow communications to all possible phones about Novelas! Via SMS!

Yeah, how about you read the damn article? This is mentioned:

The crew vehicle served the Soviet space program through 1991 and since then has been a mainstay for the country’s large space corporation, Roscosmos. The Soyuz is a hardy, generally reliable vehicle that NASA counted on for crew transport from 2011 to 2020, after the space shuttle’s retirement and before SpaceX’s Crew Dragon came into service.

The Soyuz spacecraft, as well as a lot of the country’s other satellites, launches into orbit on the Soyuz rocket. This vehicle dates back even a bit further, to 1966. Russian engineers have modified and modernized both the spacecraft and rocket over time, but they remain essentially the same space vehicles.

There’s nothing wrong with aging technology that works. However, there have been some issues of late with leaks and other problems that have raised serious questions about quality control and the ability of the Russians to manufacture these vehicles.

IOW, Russia lost a decades-long ability under the watch of Putin/his appointed cronies

Didn’t they just stop launching stuff into space altogether?