Posted on 08/14/2011 8:11:25 PM PDT by decimon
The new chief of Russia's space agency on Thursday said it had put too much emphasis on manned space flight and needed to increase financing on projects that brought a tangible return.
Roskosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin, in one of his first interviews since taking office this year, said the agency was spending almost half its budget on manned flight and it was no longer good enough just to put a human in orbit.
"In Roskosmos, unfortunately, at a certain time there was a very big shift to manned spaceflight. The budget for manned flight programmes takes up almost half of the budget of the entire agency," he told the Kommersant daily.
"If manned spaceflight shows results, it's useful. But if a person just wants to be in orbit, then I do not consider this to be a beneficial activity. There needs to be a return," Popovkin declared bluntly.
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But what are they doing to promote Islam?
Backward way of saying they are behind the eight ball on drone technology.
I like your tagline... When I see how there government works in that movie that’s exactly how I picture all levels of ours working
And you know who is now paying for most of that 1/2 budget for Manned Spaceflight? The USA.
With the last shuttle mission done, USA is now paying $55M a seat on each 3 seat launch (and one is always a Russian Pilot).
And you know who is now paying for most of that 1/2 budget for Manned Spaceflight? The USA.
With the last shuttle mission done, USA is now paying $55M a seat on each 3 seat launch (and one is always a Russian Pilot).
And you know who is now paying for most of that 1/2 budget for Manned Spaceflight? The USA.
With the last shuttle mission done, USA is now paying $55M a seat on each 3 seat launch (and one is always a Russian Pilot).
Oops - Mods, ‘Clean up on isle 3’.
OTOH, their Mars missions leave something to be desired in terms of even partial successes.
I daresay that they are probably jealous of the experience that JPL has in traveling by gravity boost.
Yes!!!!
Well, there is that pesky parachute release timing maneuver at the end of the flight...
The new chief of Russia’s space agency on Thursday said it had put too much on manned space.
GOOD FOR HIM americcan taxpayershould havetopped Pres Kennedy from wasting all that money sendinh man to moon
now westuck with paying for it
I wonder where the “International” Space Station will impact?
Probably because so many of them got killed.
I don't know if you're serious but I'm much in agreement with this. I believe we should have put more into the X-20 project and less into Apollo.
That was the original plan, but the Russians putting Gagarin in orbit was what prompted JFK to make his Moon speech and give NASA a blank check to get there.
That was the original plan, but the Russians putting Gagarin in orbit was what prompted JFK to make his Moon speech and give NASA a blank check to get there.
I can appreciate that but I think we knew they weren't really ahead of us. There is also an argument that X-20 hadn't clear objectives. nonetheless, X-20 could have moved us forward on both military and civilian fronts.
I think they've removed this but Boeing had on their website that cancelling X-20 (Dyna-Soar) was one of the worst mistakes we've made.
I think they've removed this but Boeing had on their website that cancelling X-20 (Dyna-Soar) was one of the worst mistakes we've made.
Consider how the B2 has been used for around the world bombing missions for the past few years. And this year the B1 was used the same way. Imagine if we would have had a suborbital bomber for the past forty years.
Coming from a government official—of any government—that statement is both staggering...and refreshing!
"There needs to be a return." Maybe some day our government officials will be caught on record saying things like that. Maybe even doing things like that!
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