Posted on 05/13/2014 2:39:47 PM PDT by lbryce
Russia will reject a US request to use the International Space Station after 2020 in retaliation for trade sanctions imposed over Russia's aggressive annexation of Crimea, its deputy prime minister announced today.
The space station is maintained by both American and Russian crews. But because NASA's shuttle program was decommissioned in 2011, the only way to get there is on board Russian spacecraft. The US currently pays Russia $60 million per person to ferry its astronauts to the space station, and had planned to continue working on it until 2024.
"The Russian segment can exist independently from the American one. The US one cannot," Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said today.
THE US PAYS RUSSIA $60 MILLION PER ASTRONAUT TO GET TO THE ISS
The move comes after NASA announced it was cutting off contact with Russia because of the Ukraine crisis, with the exception of the space station. At the time, critics said the move was a ploy by NASA to get more funding from the US government. Russia's announcement, however, seems genuinely motivated by the Ukraine fallout.
Russia will also bar the US from buying Russian rocket engines that would be used to launch military satellites, Rogozin said.
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China will have its own space station 2020.
If want to control space you need facilities there.
“large enough for one woman, one minority, one gay, one transgendered - and probably one white male just to operate all those silly knobs and switch things.”
Could you combine the first 4?
“Could you combine the first 4?”
You must be planning a really big rocket if you are going to take Oprah along!
I say we respond “Dear Vlad, we have decided to decommission the ISP in 2020 when you hear the ticking you will have............
“Nice space station, if you can keep it.”
Sure, contracts, international agreements, assurances that an agreement on a long term item won’t be used or disrupted by being used as manipulation.
We are not at war.
Seriously?
Sure, some long term obligations continue, even when countries are angry at each other.
Tell that to the Russians.
Tell them what? I was asking whether we had that sort of agreement before we started depending on them, or not.
Whether such an agreement exists or not is a moot point. If it exists the Russians just tore it up and burned the pieces.
It isn’t moot at all, let’s find out if there is one, before you decide that the Russians broke it.
Time to watch BA and LMT shares...
Like Navajo souvenirs made in China, Moon souvenir rocks were from somewhere else
> The US currently pays Russia $60 million per person to ferry its astronauts to the space station, and had planned to continue working on it until 2024.
Yeah, that’ll teach us, huh? Heh.
Thanks lbryce.
Welcome to MIR II or Salyut 8. B-P Thank you, Obongo. B-(
Yeah, I think the docking hatched used for the Shuttle were the same as for Apollo. I’d say we need to bring back Apollo, but as you put it, it was “another America” that built it, man-rated it and improved it.
I guess Wolowitz won’t be going back there anytime soon.
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