Mister Bates posted:

why the hell is it even called Roscosmos, anyway? That's been bugging me for quite a while. Why does Russia have its own space program separate from the rest of the Soviet Union? Did the USSR actually collapse offscreen at some point with no one mentioning it, or are the writers just falling victim to that particular American brain poison where they think 'Russia' and 'the Soviet Union' are perfectly, 1-to-1 interchangeable?

It's a particularly weird one in terms of alt-history because it is actually called that IRL but doesn't make sense in-universe, it's like they just used the current real-life name for the Russian space program without stopping to ask why it's called that or if it makes sense to still be called that in this timeline.