Russia’s sputtering scientific push
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Here's a look at some amazing space images from 2019
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The country has poured money into research in the past decade, but corruption and exhaustion have largely hollowed out its gains.
Dec. 21, 2011 At the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, spectators watch the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with the Soyuz TMA-03M spaceship carrying a new crew, including U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit, to the international space station. With the end of the space shuttle program, the United States is now dependent on Russian rockets, which have been troubled by engineering failures. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
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Since the Soviet collapse, Russia has developed a fractured scientific system, with a whole generation gone missing.
This year, scientists have recorded and observed galactic interactions, atmospheric phenomena and the first images of a black hole.