I agree with all that has been said above. It is really a mangificent achievement.

Mr Matic. Going to the Moon for Russia could be good for prestige but very expensive and needless at the present time. It seems to me that the present russian space's conquest is good. One step at a time. After mastering the low and geostationar satellites positionning, then the space-stations like Mir, then ISS, will come the time of conceiving a starting-base, on the Moon or on high altitude, for interplanetary exploration. To have a chance of usefull discovery we must learn to travel a lot faster (so far we are nearly 30 000 times slower than the speed of light. According to recent dicoveries the first planet which has a possible similarity with Earth is located at 22 light-years away). Meanwile, we must also consider that our solar-system'sisters-planets are inhospitable. Nevertheless, it needs 8 months to go to the nearest one: Mars. Now, we are very proud to have six persons on the ISS; but to do a decent exploration, for instance in Jupiter or Saturn's moons, a lot larger crew will be requested. Let us not hurry, just for the "frime" but do the job correctly and be patient. Naturally, if we did not waste 1000 billions € a year on police and armaments' equipments for our self-destruction and for making a few greedies humans rich; we could certainly make quicker progress. We elect and pay decisions'makers to lead us correctly; what else can we do !!! Sorry Future Generations ! Sincerely. Jean-claude Meslin