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Sadly Russia culturally and technologically is not a successor to USSR. Its space program is in shambles. Soyuz was designed in the '60s and Russia's space prog
by myth_drannon 6y ago
Sadly Russia culturally and technologically is not a successor to USSR. Its space program is in shambles. Soyuz was designed in the '60s and Russia's space program can't offer anything new. That happens when you pay your engineers 150$ per month(floor cleaner at McDonald's makes $250) while Rogozin gets 400k$ per year (that's only the official number...), double of what NASA director makes.
Humanity needs a way to access space and we can't rely on the relics of old Soviet technology for that (no matter how great it was, we are rapidly losing the knowledge of it).
- myth_drannon 6y agoHe also mentions the new Vostochny Cosmodrome which has been in construction forever. In 2015 the construction personnel(500 people) didn't receive a salary for 5 months and had to write pleads to Putin on the rooftops of their barracks. That's Roscosmos, you can't build anything while people are starving.
- hobofan 6y agoWhile it's not as extreme, SpaceX isn't exactly known for great engineering salaries either.
- optimiz3 6y agoMost people I know would be very happy to own SpaceX stock.
- Avicebron 6y agoThat's not quite the same as an engineering salary, especially if you are not getting stock options. Would be happy to find out that all new engineers are getting stock options though.
- Justsignedup 6y agoThere's a difference between a SpaceX engineer not getting paid top-dollar and making below McDonalds janitorial staff wages. However you are not wrong.
- Nginx487 6y agoHowever, they definitely perform better then Russian spacecraft engineers, who consider salary $4000/year as very attractive
- mlindner 6y ago> Sadly Russia culturally and technologically is not a successor to USSR. I think that's a very very good thing for all the atrocities that Soviet Russia committed on it's populace and especially the populace of the various Republics.
- Nginx487 6y agoExactly what I wanted to say, so I would add some. Thanks to poor performance of Russian space and defense industries, US may consider new Cold War (call it Cold War II) not very seriously, while in 60-70s USSR achievements never let their competitors relax. Maybe it was not that bad in the end, these hardships led to new technological achievements of the time, like Space Shuttle program.
- mD5pPxMcS6fVWKE 6y agoRogozin makes much much more by the way of taking bribes from contractors.