Originally Posted by
Barksdale Boy
Hokulea, you shouldn't be too surprised: I seem to remember that they did something pretty reckless during Apollo XI.
Do you mean the Luna 15 attempted sample return?
If that’s the case whilst there were concerns about interference between the two missions an exchange of info between the Soviets and the US at a high level led to the conclusion that in reality the risk of any interaction was pretty much zero…..nothing reckless about it but I do however remember the media hyping it up for all it was worth..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/histo...-moon-instead/
As for the recent Russian test…..not exactly friendly, especially given the ISS factor, but they are entitled to point out that the US and others have destroyed satellites and scattered debris around by using anti-sat weapons in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon