Quote from: cozmicray on 06/25/2013 04:42 pmChinaESAIndiaUSA -- Gov space FUBAR
ChinaESAIndiaUSA -- Gov space FUBAR
Today -- 2 for 2 Russia ,zero USA
Quote from: Avron on 06/26/2013 01:00 amToday -- 2 for 2 Russia ,zero USAToday's launches also put Russia at exactly half of the year's launches. Over half if you count Naro as an Angara-derivative. Soyuz and Proton just keep on truckin'!Another startling fact: Soyuz has as many launches as all the world's other active launchers combined! (Though only thanks to the recent retirement of Shuttle and Delta II.)
I look at what we're doing as a country (USA) and I can't see how we're considering ourselves as the world leaders in space right now. Russia seem to have the march on the activity side at least.Agree or not?
That said, Russia leads today. It leads in launches, by far. It leads in mass to orbit. It leads in humans carried to orbit. It builds the engines that power many of those "US" rockets.