We all know that during this era of technology there is a
challenge to now concur space. The Russian space force program, or Roscosmos, has
been in competition with Elon Musk’s Space X for an extensive time. Space X is
owned by Elon Musk and shareholders while being funded privately and through
different projects with NASA. Roscosmos is headed by Dmitry Rogozin, who became
the leader in 1992. The US and Soviet space programs were in competition with
one another prior to the actual formation Russia and the secrecy was even
heavier then. We see the veil of secrecy lifted as we enter the new age of technology
and internet. As this creates new avenues of sending and receiving valuable information.
This becomes particularly important with regards to how people share pertinent
data and cross over boundaries of respect for one another.
Recently, Russia’s space program has fallen under scrutiny
with regards to a Twitter account that has been since deleted. Maxim Suraev is
the cosmonaut that has openly called out the program as being inadequate when
compared to Space X. This controversy goes into more than just one person
firing shots, but rather there are multiple accounts that are involved. Through
the tweets released it seems there is concern that program Space X is
outperforming their Russian counterparts. The robot, Fedor, is rumored to have
sent some of the response tweets, but as of now the accounts have all been
deleted and an investigation is pending.
Where do we draw the line with social media and this new technological
industry where we are fixing to place humans on Mars, but we, as a collective
whole, are not united on this front? At what point do decide to put aside
differences and possibly join forces. As opposed to driving a further wedge
between our relationship.
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