"One man with courage makes a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
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Thank you Obama... For turning the U.S. into a third world nation.
Serves us right for trusting Russia to begin with. Also serves us right for electing a guy who simultaneously neuter sour armed forces and cuts NASA.
Perhaps a few rounds of singing “Kumbaya” will smooth over these hurt feelings. Fortunately, our brilliant boy-prez and his courageous Sec. of State will be able to reason with Vladimer Putin.
Good luck to our astronauts on that space station.
They can certainly quit giving US astronauts rides on their rockets, but the International Space Station is like 75% US made, so I’m not sure where they have the ability to ban the US from using it once Elon Musk’s Dragon capsules are fully operational. FWIW, NASA has the ability to drop the ISS into the Pacific Ocean any time they want to.
I reminded of the movie 2010.
Keep an eye on Jupiter.
They went farther than that, they said they are joining into an agreement with China to build a new “International Space Station” that will exclude the West...
Meaningless drivel. Although we are dependent now on the Russians for access to the station, by 2020, we will have some type of domestic transport in place (SpaceX, Boeing and Sierra Nevada are all working on vehicles for crew transport to and from ISS). As for the RD-180, we already have about 70 of those stockpiled here in the USA, so there are enough engines for Atlas launches for the foreseeable future.
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Just don’t cut off the cheap ammo!
Give them three days to get everyone off the station, and then kill it.
Problem solved.
No more manned space flights. It's all a waste of money.
To paraphrase Al Davis: Just probes, baby probes!
What is the difference between the US and Iranian space programs? Iran can send a man to the International Space Station. How much does the USA pay for the upkeep of the station?
I guess we’ll have to use that reset button to launch those satellites.
Can’t Nasa just shut the station down from the ground
Talk about a non-event. Anything having to do with the space station is a taxpayer funded boondogle of no value except to the NASA personnel and contractors on the gravy train. The money would have been put to better use by leaving it in the hands of those who earned it.
So who didn’t see this coming? Anyone? Buehler?
Honestly, who didn’t see this coming? We put our faith in Russia not to back stab us to free up dollars to hand out to voters and expect them NOT to blackmail us at some point??
One must admit that the building of the ISS was an engineering marvel. I’m not too sure what it is that we are doing with it. Has it been instrumental in any kind of scientific development, important discovery? It might be that it has had some significance in studying long term duration space flight! We built most of it, lots of the Russian contribution was usually late and it’s quality dubious. But now we are over a barrel. So do we just give up?
