Posted on 07/27/2011 4:21:24 PM PDT by Dallas59
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia plans to de-orbit the mammoth International Space Station in a controlled descent into the Pacific in 2020, a top space official said Wednesday.
Deputy head of Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos Vitaly Davydov said that the station "cannot be left in orbit" after it stops operation.
He said in a web-posted statement that the station will have to be de-orbited in a "planned crash so that there is no space junk left behind."
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Why not put some rocket engines on it, dock a lander on it and fly it to the moon. Then upgrade it and fly it to Mars. It could have a real purpose. By the way Ruskies bite me!
Only, this is not suicide. This is cold blooded murder. New American Century? That was a joke. Killing joke to make haemorrhage painless. Dumbing down of America paid off. American Republic was lost lost without a shot being fired and "American" Empire was never American. If you only think of all evil deeds done in the name of American people, you could understand why it will not be missed by so many. As Willie would sing, Bad karma coming down.
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“Screw those commie bastards, and screw their little wussy space station.”
This is the same sort of paradigm as the current U.S. unmanned launch program. Private companies launch NASA cargoes.
Boeing has the CST-100, which is a seven-crew capsule.
SpaceX has the Dragon, which has already flown an unmanned orbital flight; it is the first private company to go into space last year, and will send an unmanned Dragon to the ISS this year.
Lockheed Martin took the Orion and is developing another version of it. It won't fly for a while but will be good for deep space missions.
Dream Chaser is a 7 crew space plane that is loosely based on the old X-20 Dyna Soar.
There is also Bigelow Aerospace, which is working on a inflated commercial space station. Don't laugh too much; the design for the BA 330 has as much toughness as the ISS.
There goes another $200 billion or more up in smoke.
America is most successful nation in the history of mankind.
Yet for the last twenty years, and for most of the last 50 years, 99% of people elected to federal office have been buffons at best. Most are outright crooks, traitors, perverts, rapists, racists, mental incompetents and idiots.
This country went from zero to putting men on the moon in less than 10 years, using relays, vacuum tubes and mechanical calculators.
Those were heady days to live through!
It seemed there wasn’t anything we Americans couldn’t do.
But somewhere along the line we lost our vision and have let venal politicians turn us against each other.
Since that time we have invested a fortune in building a low orbit space station and now we can’t even get to the space station without begging rides from our competitors.
We need new leadership and it will not be found in either of the two political parties. They have a deathgrip on our future and serve only themselves.
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Wow. That is an interesting post.
We can't even get up to the thing, and evidently have no idea when we might again.
BTW, how much money did we put into this thing and they're just going to set it all on fire?!
Inflated modules make a lot of sense since they can be substantially larger than a conventional module.
Everything up there is limited by the size of the rockets. Solar panels are tightly folded for launch, an inflatable module is the equivalent of a folded structure.
Few if any people recall the name of Raymond Claire Briant.
Space police
www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2011/110526-x-37b-otv.htm - Cached26 May 2011 – The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space planes are a cloak-and-dagger project, ... when he heard the second X-37B was launching. Hiding such an event is nearly impossible. ... “I thought, ‘Oh great, not again,’ ” he says. ...
I know how they hide it while it is in orbit!! Cool trick!
According to Wikipedia, the ISS was going to be de-orbited in 2016 per Bush 41’s policy, but in 2010 Obama extended the time period to 2020. So sounds like US set the date.
First, for all you bi#ching about NASA and DoD expenditures on technologies, without their leadership and innovation you would be typing your message on an IBM Selectric and putting it in the mail tomorrow instead of the computer you are working on. Neither organization is perfect but NASA was an organization we once pointed to with pride and DoD is the last of the gov’t organizations that displays any semblance of integrity while keeping us safe.
Second, why did Russia make this statement today, because they can. We have an impotent President that Russia will toy with for the duration of his tenure. He is weak and has placed the US over a barrel. If Russia wanted to bring the ISS down tomorrow, what could we do about it. We have no way to get to the ISS and this statement today is the first volley of extortion by Russia. It won’t be the last.
For you others that think the F22 gives us air superiorty, it does in the short term. On the path we are on with technological investment, it won’t when your grade school children are sending their kids to school.
Your good comment touched a nerve. All those things you have mentioned are what is known and I am sure there is more going on that would be cause for alarm. Even though they are financed by the government, they are wealth generators acting for the economy what a electrical plant does for a region’s energy. The space program for instance, created technology development in the major corporations that have since led to other innovations and products that have added greatly to the economy. Even though it originates from our tax dollar, the dividends from that spending have been huge. The Obamunists see them for the benefit to the economy and are, in my opinion, systematically taking them out so it brings our economy down like one would dismantle the electrical grid.
The government depends on the taxes from the wealth production in the private sector. What kind of transformation do we get when the private sector is so weakened that the flow of money cannot sustain jobs or meet the tax expectations needed to keep the government working?
Whoa! I hadn’t heard that one!
NASA estimates the station has cost U.S. taxpayers $50 billion since 1994 — and overall, its price tag has been pegged at $100 billion by all member nations.
I once knew a German aristocrat from an old family whose name was Willhemn De Orbit.
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