Russian Booster Rocket Fails to Deliver Satellites

NY Times ^ | ANNA KORDUNSKY

[riverdawg]

A former classmate of mine worked in the Office of Soviet Analysis at the CIA for many years during the Cold War. Back in the 80s I asked him if, given what he knew about the Soviet nuclear threat, he had trouble sleeping at night. He replied matter-of-factly that, no, he slept well in part because he didn't think that many of their ICBMs would make it off the launch pad and most of those which did would land harmlessly elsewhere.

[Condor51]

*** You capitalist people are just so unrealistic. ~~ snip ~~ Obamanomics ... saves us a fortune ***

Yep, you're right, we're just spoiled I guess -- all that 'Success stuff', feh, who needs it. But given enough time, like in a nice Camp in Siberia, we'll all 'get' Obamanomics. Heck, we'll have to, or he'll just kill us outright.

But until then, it appears all our 'savings' from Obamanomics is driving us all into bankruptcy. And this new feeling we're supposed to have that he's pushing of: 'Whoopee! .. We're Poor Now!', is a bit hard to grasp. (LOL)

BTW - I think I know why you never got that Global Warming *back home* you were looking for. You were at the same Latitude at Green Bay, Wisconsin :-)

[SunkenCiv]

“The mishap was another blow to Russia’s space program...”

There wouldn’t be a Russian space program any longer if it weren’t for the Demwits in Congress, who crapped all over Reagan’s Space Station Freedom idea.

Thanks neverdem and gleeaikin.