I was a zealot of it in my early school years. Much of my later disappointment with modern days Russia was allowing the Soviet space research programmes to coll

I was a zealot of it in my early school years. Much of my later disappointment with modern days Russia was allowing the Soviet space research programmes to collapse. Its a pity humanity will never again have Energia rocket. That one could reach Mars with 5tons of useful weight in 1991. In 2012 there was attempt to animate Energia, but 90% of it was constructed in Ukraine, and it is not an option today.