Posted on 05/14/2014 6:22:32 AM PDT by shove_it
In retaliation for imposing sanctions, Russia will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites
Russia is to deny the US future use of the International Space Station beyond 2020 and will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites as it hits back at American sanctions imposed over Ukraine crisis. Russia’s deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced a series of punitive measures on Tuesday against the US in response to sanctions imposed after Russia annexed Crimea...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
That may be the Post Of The Day.
No more manned space flights. It's all a waste of money.
To paraphrase Al Davis: Just probes, baby probes!
rktman -True statement about GW terminating the shuttle program. However, the statement sheds a false light on the facts. Just as Kennedy canceled the Mercury and Gemini programs Apollo was almost ready to go. When GW canceled the
Shuttle the belief was that there would be less than a year gap in our ability to launch humans into low earth orbit.
Obama has slow rolled the next launch vehicle. Making Muslims feel better about their accomplishments is more important.
“NASA maintains its orientation and stability. NASA has full control of every major operation and system aboard it.”
If you don’t think NASA’s systems have been hacked years ago by the Russians, your living in a dream world. Keep it in mind that Putin plays chess, Obama is a novice at checkers.
We should thank the Russians for making the point so clearly: Obama is weak, and he has weakened the US. Perhaps a few people will notice.
What is the difference between the US and Iranian space programs? Iran can send a man to the International Space Station. How much does the USA pay for the upkeep of the station?
Here’s the latest on the Orion Spacecraft ...
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html#.U3N0s9JdWSo
There’s an active unmanned launch schedule here on Florida’s Space Coast, both NASA and commercial rockets ...
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/events.aspx?type=rocket-launches
I guess we’ll have to use that reset button to launch those satellites.
“As for the RD-180, we already have about 70 of those stockpiled here in the USA,”
Which about covers scheduled launches through 2018.
And after that? What about unscheduled launches? Tests?
Those 80 aren’t going to last long, and the Federal Contracting lead time is far longer than that.
The point was not to suggest any action, the point was to emphasize the full and complete control of the ISS held by the U.S. What is idiotic is the rash responses on FR these days by people who only superficially read a post without grasping the full message. So here is my comment again using lots more unnecessary words:
The U.S, has the ability to control nearly every system on the ISS from the ground, they can turn the lights on and off in nearly every compartment they control the environmental settings, heating, cooling, waste treatment everything you could imagine. They control the thrusters for reorienting the entire station for spacecraft access and convenience, and they can move it into higher and lower orbits to avoid known space debris. In the 1970s due to unexpected sunspot activity the first American space station Skylab's orbit started to decay faster than expected and the US had no operational spacecraft - manned or unmanned -- or other ability to boost Skylab in its orbit. As Skylab's orbit decayed there was a great fear that once it burned up larger sections could come down over populated areas and injure or kill people. Ultimately it came down over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia and no one was injured. However to avoid that problem in the future large NASA orbiting facilities including ISS have been launched in recent years with maneuvering thrusters and ample fuel to allow for a controlled reentry if such a thing were ever necessary; i.e dropping it in the Pacific Ocean. Because of all of these abilities at the fingertips of NASA flight controllers it would be foolhardy for the Russians to ever attempt to seize control of the ISS or attempt to ban Americans from using it.
Or... in response to the question of Russian blocking the US I could have emphasized the extent of the control the US has of the station by stating, "NASA has the ability to drop the ISS into the Pacific Ocean any time they want to.” Which I did. There was a time on FR when you didn't need to write a couple hundred words to make a simple point.
Can’t Nasa just shut the station down from the ground
Talk about a non-event. Anything having to do with the space station is a taxpayer funded boondogle of no value except to the NASA personnel and contractors on the gravy train. The money would have been put to better use by leaving it in the hands of those who earned it.
Yeah, that was worth billions. There is no more war. No more terrorism. Unlimited free energy. No hate. Full employment.
The only benefit from our Space program is Tang, IMHO. I thoroughly enjoy the pictures from Hubble, but Star Trek gave us great pictures as well. Hubble simply shows the majesty of God's creation.
The distances of space make space travel impossible until we develop warp drive and can move at multiples of the speed of light, and overcome the reality of the dilation of time.
This is a HUGE waste of treasure.
Yes but so can Russia. Despite the fantasies to the contrary, the station can be controlled from Russia by necessity in case something happened to control ability here in the USA.
The crew that returned to earth yesterday consists of Richard Mastracchio, Koichi Wakata, and Mikhail Tyurin.
The crew currently onboard consists of Oleg Artemyev, Steve Swanson (Commander), and Alexander Skvortsov. Reid Wiseman, Alexander Gerst, and Maxim Suraev are due to arrive on the 28th of this month.
So who didn’t see this coming? Anyone? Buehler?
Honestly, who didn’t see this coming? We put our faith in Russia not to back stab us to free up dollars to hand out to voters and expect them NOT to blackmail us at some point??
One must admit that the building of the ISS was an engineering marvel. I’m not too sure what it is that we are doing with it. Has it been instrumental in any kind of scientific development, important discovery? It might be that it has had some significance in studying long term duration space flight! We built most of it, lots of the Russian contribution was usually late and it’s quality dubious. But now we are over a barrel. So do we just give up?
Space Station’s Benefits for Humanity in Plain Sight in New Video Feature ...
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/benefits_video/#.U3OXPtJdWSo
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