Posted on 05/15/2014 9:15:21 AM PDT by raptor22
World Leadership: In retaliation for imposing sanctions over Ukraine, Moscow will bar our use of its rocket engines in launching U.S. military satellites and deny the U.S. use of the International Space Station.
It may come as news to some that the nation that once used the massive Saturn V launch vehicle to put men on the moon now imports Russian rocket engines, but we do.
That supply is to be cut off in response to the sanctions imposed by President Obama in response to Moscow's annexation of Crimea and its actions against Ukraine. Also to be cut off is U.S. access to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2020 or perhaps sooner.
Russia supplies RD-180 engines for the Atlas 5 rocket we use to launch our military satellites, and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft is the only vehicle capable of transporting astronauts to and from the space station.
At a press conference Tuesday alongside Oleg Ostapenko, head of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, announced new conditions for the use of both have been imposed.
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Take that, Kenya boy.
Meanwhile, 0bama cut the ball$ off the US space program.
The title is very poorly worded. It could be understood to read that the U.S. is being denied access to the air space over Ukraine.
He has completely shut down the US manned space flight program and dismembered any capability to resurrect the shuttle. All this with no plans for any practical follow-up
He is doing the same thing to defense, still not a peep. Instead the MSM are all lathered up over imaginary wars on (fill in the blank).
I would think that that is the natural way of taking the title.
That’s what I thought too and it worked, I clicked on the link!
“Instead the MSM are all lathered up over imaginary wars on (fill in the blank).”
In The New Academic Socialist-run Amerikka, the media must play along with whatever the day’s DailyKos-directed Current GroupThink is, or risk the possibility of losing that cushy media job.
It was this way in 1930’s Germany, too.
One benefit of being in my late 50s is I can remember the era in which America’s power was pre-eminent. Never did I imagine we’d be placed in such a weak position to the point we’d be reduced to begging the Russians for rides to accomplish space missions. We are very much a reduced country now.. essentially to our knees... and the left could not be more thrilled.
You had me going there for a minute. I thought it meant “air space”. Maybe it will end up that way at some point.
Well, now that we know that Russia is still, well, Russia, we can get back to treating them like Russia again.
This should be a serious omen for policy-makers.
Don’t trust Russia, don’t sign agreements with Russia.
SpaceX Dragon will be able to pickup the slack within months.
Not to worry.
The Obamadorkthing will shake his rainbow flag in Putin’s general direction.
Yeah, looks like "Ukrainian air space".
I doubt it. You can’t put dragon engines on an atlas or delta. The payloads for those two vehicles are designed for those vehicles only. Further, you can not put an atlas or delta payload on a dragon for dozens of reason (weight, CG, com links, size, dimensions, vibration, etc.)
If the Russians deny access to the ISS, there will be nowhere for the Dragon module to go. If Obama and Putin continue on this path, will the motivation and funding for replacement delivery systems to the ISS wither away?
The ISS is a joint international operation. Like the United Nations.
Russians don’t control the ISS.
They currently control the only capsule able to deliver humans to the ISS.
Deny access to that capsule denies access to the ISS. Like denying access to NY City denies access to the U.N.
Once Dragon is able to deliver astronauts to the ISS Russia can ‘t stop the USA access to the ISS.
The SpaceX Dragon CRS variant approaching the ISS during the C2+ mission in May 2012.
It's role is placing humans and cargo into Low Earth orbit. A crew of up to 7 astronauts is planned for delivery to and recovery from the ISS in 2014.
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