Posted on 04/19/2018 7:14:16 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
WASHINGTON, April 19. /TASS/. The United States and Russia may sign a new commercial deal stipulating the delivery of US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), Executive Director for Piloted Space Programs at Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos Sergei Krikalyov told TASS on Thursday.
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Why do we need them with the robust human space flight progr...... Oh. Sorry. I musta forgot the last shuttle landed 7/21/2011. How could I forget? I was there. DOH!
I think it’s an important relationship. And I imagine these guys have a deep respect for each other. It’s a win win.
Probably the astronaut thing has taken these individuals beyond the Politicians political posturing, egotism and petty oneupsmanship that infests most all gubmint employees.
Does this mean Space X and Boeing are falling behind in their manned capsule developments ? They are both due to have manned flights in November and December.
Possibly, me, I think that the problem is the Media and all stories including those that should be informational, are now politically correct. That means that Space X and Boeing have to release stuff that can't be turned against them, so they keep it "Successfully Vague" and no outsider knows exactly how well they are doing.
The fact of Russian space hardware reliability reputation, came from a media era where they would tell the truth if it made the Soviet Union look good.
Now the same media want the Russians to look incompetent and backward, but the hardware is the same, so they have to make anything NOT Russian look better, no matter what, it's not them that dies inflight.
Think of the US government, and all of it’s agencies that need things put into orbit as the world’s largest space customer. Now being it’s the world’s largest user of outer space right now it needs many sub-contractors to fulfill orders. Some are in house drivers like NASA, and the Airforce, while others are vendors like SpaceX, Boeing and the Russians. SpaceX is continually building capacity, but it won’t be able to overtake NASA or Russia in volume of lift-offs for maybe another 5-10 years.
True, but they’re getting there.
What’s to stop the Russians from leaving our astronauts up there? I don’t think I’d like to sign on for THAT gig.
“It’s a trap!”
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