This month marks 48 years since Russia became the first country that landed on another planet

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

It's much harder to land on another planet because moon goes around the Earth while planets go around the Sun. Anyway, Russia did it first. Big achievement for mankind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interplanetary_voyages

 

[Ali_Baba]

But the Americans did it better. Putting a human on the surface is a far bigger achievement. Russias were first, but had no staying power to finish the job off or it take it to its conclusion. Pretty much sums up everything they do infact.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

But the Americans did it better. Putting a human on the surface is a far bigger achievement.

How long can a man stay on the moon? A mere hours? How is that anything useful?

Russias were first, but had no staying power to finish the job off or it take it to its conclusion. Pretty much sums up everything they do infact.

And Americans never returned to the Moon since Apollo. What's your point? Humanity will die on Earth it seems. No one is interested in space anymore.

 

[Sineva]

It's much harder to land on another planet because moon goes around the Earth while planets go around the Sun. Anyway, Russia did it first. Big achievement for mankind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interplanetary_voyages

venera 7 landed 15 dec 1970

 

[My-Analogous]

But the Americans did it better. Putting a human on the surface is a far bigger achievement. Russias were first, but had no staying power to finish the job off or it take it to its conclusion. Pretty much sums up everything they do infact.

Russian space station was on scape from 1986 to 2001. Where is US (own) till date?

Russia is still leading in this field

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The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched in 1998.[9] The ISS is divided into two main sections, the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) and the US Orbital Segment (USOS).

USOS modules were brought to the station by the Space Shuttle and manually attached to the ISS by crews during EVAs. Connections are made manually for electrical power, data, propulsion and cooling fluids. This results in a single piece which is not designed for disassembly.[10]

The Russian Orbital Segment's modules are able to launch, fly and dock themselves without human intervention using Proton rockets.[11] Connections are automatically made for power, data and propulsion fluids and gases. The Russian approach would hypothetically allow the assembly of space stations orbiting other worlds in preparation for human missions.

Russian modular or "second-generation" space stations differ from "monolithic" single-piece stations by allowing reconfiguration of the station to suit changing needs. According to a 2009 report, RKK Energia considered removing some modules of the ROS when the end of mission is reached for the ISS to reuse them as parts of a new station, known as the Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex.[12] However, in September 2017 the head of Roscosmos said that the technical feasibility of separating the station to form OPSEK had been studied, and there were now no plans to separate the Russian segment from the ISS)

 

[Ultima Thule]

How long can a man stay on the moon? A mere hours? How is that anything useful?

In apollo 11, 21 hours stay at moon, rest of the moon landings counts 2-3 day stay at the moon surface @undertakerwwefan

And Americans never returned to the Moon since Apollo. What's your point? Humanity will die on Earth it seems. No one is interested in space anymore.

And whats for these Soviet/Russian mission, and have vast opportunity to explore the universe, fined better place to live, disaster relief form orbits, finding from minerals on earth is lot easier from orbits than earth techniques, material and science experiments that could not do in earth gravity especially biological experiments etc etc @undertakerwwefan