Space Program in Time Warp 50 Years On

A construction worker at the All-Russia Exhibition Center restoring the area around a model of the Vostok rocket that carried Yury Gagarin to space. Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union took the lead in the space race by sending the first human into orbit. But on the anniversary of Yury Gagarin’s flight, the country’s space program is stagnating, lacking a direction and living off past successes. […]