Scientist Behind Failed Lunar Mission Is Hospitalized After Calling For Investigation
<p>Mikhail Marov, 90, a key consultant to the failed luna-25 mission, has been rushed to hospital following the spacecraft’s crash into the surface of the Moon.</p>
<p>Marov’s health condition arose after he called for an investigation into the expedition’s failure. It is not known whether his insistence on transparency regarding the failure of Putin’s lunar mission had anything to do with his hospitalization — though death often follows failure in Putin’s Russia.</p>
<p>If Putin wanted to look for blame he could examine the oligarchical state that he set up, where a handful of billionaires run everything without supervision. Russian sources are citing corruption inside the country’s Roscosmos space agency for the failure of the mission.</p>
<p>Russia’s space sector corruption includes multimillion-dollar <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/22/russia-launches-crackdown-on-spaceport-corruption-vostochny-cosmodrome" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">graft</a> during the construction of the new Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East, a facility that was meant to become a crowning jewel of the country’s space program.</p>
<p>Russia needed the new facility after Kazakhstan shut down the Baikonur launch centre over Russian debt default. Kazakhstan pulled away from Russia after Putin’s latest aggressive wars, so in a sense Putin is personally responsible for creating the need for and the conditions for the monumental graft.</p>
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