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Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket by tzfld on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:09AM (#18193182)
The Russians had too many issues with their launchers in the past years, so this seems to be part of a trend, and not an isolated case.

As you said, this is rocket science. High corruption level and incompetent officials can be very destructive in domains like space exploration.

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Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket by adrianN on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:23AM (#18193292)
Eh, launch failures are probably approximately Poisson distributed. It's not unlikely for them to appear in clumps.
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Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket by solarkraft on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:20AM (#18193260)
Unfortunately that's not a great argument for moving more of the work to the US :-)
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Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket by adventured on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:38AM (#18194381)
The US doesn't suffer from a very high level of corruption. So yes, it's a reasonable argument for moving more of the work to the US.

Transparency International ranks the US with Belgium and just behind Australia and Iceland on corruption.

Russia is #135, below Ukraine and Myanmar.

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Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket by craftyguy on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:25AM (#18193303)
Maybe a case of "the corruption you might stand a chance to expose, vs. the corruption you don't"?
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