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1 posted on 11/28/2020 1:16:09 PM PST by BenLurkin
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Well there’s probably some truth to that.


2 posted on 11/28/2020 1:17:40 PM PST by caww ( )
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Russia’s way if saying we broke it but we don’t want to fix it.


3 posted on 11/28/2020 1:18:40 PM PST by libh8er
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Lev Zeleny... Beware of anyone named Leo Green
4 posted on 11/28/2020 1:19:15 PM PST by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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Do they really have the technical expertise to build it?


6 posted on 11/28/2020 1:21:48 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults. N)
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That’s what happens to most public housing.


7 posted on 11/28/2020 1:24:59 PM PST by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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Screw those Commie bastards and screw their wussy little space station.


10 posted on 11/28/2020 1:28:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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https://futurism.com/owns-international-space-station-iss


11 posted on 11/28/2020 1:32:41 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Remember when we all assumed our space stations would look like this?:

U.S. Space Station - 1958

16 posted on 11/28/2020 1:41:32 PM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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Well the core of the ISS is the Russian Pee Soaked tube


18 posted on 11/28/2020 1:48:19 PM PST by butlerweave
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The Russians are just grouchy that we don't have to buy tickets for them to fly us there anymore.
19 posted on 11/28/2020 1:50:52 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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ISS is not much more than a big set of maintenance contracts in search of a reason to justify its existence.

Before shuttle retired, the US flew up a lot of extra equipment to handle future repairs. Dragon is going to shift a lot of the taxi service fees to the US. Russia just doesn’t want to pay it’s share of the maintenance bill and the russian contractor can make more money with less international oversight building its own modules.


21 posted on 11/28/2020 1:53:23 PM PST by jz638
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I just wanna know when and where it’s gonna hit.


27 posted on 11/28/2020 2:07:21 PM PST by moovova
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Sell it to SpaceX.


29 posted on 11/28/2020 2:12:10 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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It IS ancient at this time.


30 posted on 11/28/2020 2:14:18 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Life expectancy was 2020, but recently extended to 2024.


34 posted on 11/28/2020 2:20:24 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
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...estimates to fix the problems aboard the ISS would amount to around 10-15 billion rubles...

So, about 20 bucks then? No problem.

36 posted on 11/28/2020 2:23:56 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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If it's true, take the ISS, stuff it full of supplies and fuel, strap a couple of Falcon Heavys and shoot it into Mars orbit.

Quit letting these vehicles burn up in atmosphere, when they can be made to maintain a 22F, minimal O2 environment. The ISS in particular could be designed as a hella pack mule for a Mars supply hog. All the locks and entries are fully tested/compatible, and even if you can't establish pressured O2, just get in there grab your shit and head for the surface.

38 posted on 11/28/2020 2:40:27 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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Oh great. More space junk. Somebody needs to build one of these.


39 posted on 11/28/2020 2:45:53 PM PST by McGruff (We will not go quietly into the night. We will not surrender without a fight!)
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I’m picturing the crazy cosmonaut from Armeggedon


41 posted on 11/28/2020 2:48:28 PM PST by Hypo2
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15 billion Rubles=US$197 million bout.


46 posted on 11/28/2020 3:09:11 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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