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To: Moonman62
Sorry, but the ISS is not space station Freedom. It’s in a Russian orbit for crying out loud.

It's sorry that so many have forgotten or ignored why the ISS is in an orbit convenient for Russia. One of Russia's big contributions to the station is that they provide most of the consumable supplies, like food and oxygen. The craft that bring those supplies up also provide the periodic orbit boost the station requires.

23 posted on 03/21/2009 5:22:17 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr

Nobody’s forgotten anything. The Russians should not be allowed to touch our space station, and it should be in a lower inclination orbit. The Russians are testing our air defenses with their bombers, threatening to base bombers in Cuba, flying military jets over our navy, and knocking our satellites out of orbit. Fat lot of good all that touchy feely crap has done.


24 posted on 03/21/2009 6:18:53 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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