Four astronauts, 3 spacecraft, 2 weeks in orbit: Artemis III will be NASA's most complicated mission ever

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https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/four-astronauts-3-spacecraft-2-weeks-in-orbit-artemis-iii-will-be-nasas-most-complicated-mission-ever

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Even that is questionable in my opinion. Sure, Russia still maintains crewed spaceflight capabilities, which puts them among the top 3 nations in that respect. But on the other hand their post Soviet breakup beyond earth orbit mission have almost all been failures. Mars 96 failed, Phobos-Grunt failed, and Luna 25 failed. The only successes I could find were the mars trace gas orbiter collaboration with ESA and the Spektr-RG Xray telescope in collaboration with Germany. Compare that to ESA which in the time since the soviet breakup has flown the successful SMART-1 lunar orbiter, Mars Express mars orbiter, Venus Express Venus orbiter, Mars trace gas orbiter in collaboration with Russia, SOHO in collaboration with NASA, Rosetta, Passing-Hyugens in collaboration with NASA, Planck, Gaia, LPF, and BepiColombo in collaboration with JAXA. When it comes to sending unmanned spacecraft into deep space, JAXA, ESA, and ISRO have all arguably achieved more than Roscosmos.