> Hard to imagine the Russian space programme recovering from this war. The Russian space program never recovered from the fall of the Soviet Union. The sancti

> Hard to imagine the Russian space programme recovering from this war. The Russian space program never recovered from the fall of the Soviet Union. The sanctions and international outrage surrounding the Ukraine invasion, combined with the development of less expensive launch options that relieved everyone’s reliance on the Soyuz launch platform, mean everyone can stop propping the whole thing up.