AntonPervushin

I think that the current situation allowed Russia to secure it's interest in the Crimea, and that's exasperated by the Russian majority that resides there. Ultimately, this situation only benefits people in political positions, and hurts the actual people who are in Ukraine.

To be completely frank, I believe that the space race as we knew it wouldn't have happened if not for the cold war.

Oh, I have many stories that are similar to what you've shown me! Within the Soviet Union, there were many reports of unexplainable UFOs that showed up on radars. In fact, there were so many reports of things like this that I personally think that at least some of them were do to technical faults that were caused by the primitive equipment that they had at the time. Though some of the reports are very compelling and cannot be explained away that easily.

I’ve always played lots of video games, especially ones that pertain to space. There was a game called Elite – do any of you remember it? I rose to exalted heights in that game… I always loved XCOM: UFO Defense and beat it many times. As far as modern games go, my favorites are Starcraft 2 and Spore. I also love to battle against the Americans in the Command and Conquer: Red Alert series. Right now, all of my time (in regard to video games) is being spent on the development of Space Pioneer.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672987132/space-pioneer

I think that we will continue to stagnate if that is the case, but I'd like to elaborate on what I think will happen if tensions do continue to rise.

If you take a step back and look at what has happened before, you will see that the first push for cosmonautics/astronautics was given as a direct result of the cold war. The Soviet Union needed to have a nuclear bomb that was capable of reaching the United States, so Sergei Korolev built the P-7 rocket. This rocket later put the Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin into space. To counter and catch up to the Soviet Union, President Kennedy addressed the people of the United States and only 8 years later, Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon. That's only 10 years after the Sputnik was launched!

What have we done now when we are peacefully cooperating? Just one international space station – though even before that, we had the Skylab, Salyut, and Mir stations. And what progress has the I.S.S. given us? A huge amount of money was given to it, yet people still fly on old Soyuz craft to get there! I am sure that if our countries go into another cold war, then a lot more attention will be given towards the future of cosmonautics and astronautics, space exploration will advance much faster, and we’ll probably be on Mars 10 years earlier than we thought.