The past ought to be recollected. You can, and ought to, be glad for it,” cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin told a questioner a year ago. “However, you can’t live on it.” Russia’s once-spearheading space industry should observe.
Sixty years prior this month, with a mobilizing cry of “Poekhali!” (generally, “How about we go!”) and a 108-minute flight, Yuri Gagarin turned into the…

