"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision
of what is before them, glory and danger alike,
and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."~Thucydides
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The next step is to ban American Astronauts from Russian Spacecraft.
In other News, Nasa's new, Obama-mandated, concentration on Muslem Outreach and Global Warming is working out well. For Russia.....
Have the Russians renamed their Space Station yet?
Since when have we been using Russian engines? From a absolute reliability standpoint, I wouldn’t use a Russian rocket engine to burn trash.
Russian deputy PM sends bomber tweet after Romania airspace ban
Moldova Confiscates Petition From Russian Deputy Prime Minister
Sanctions against superpowers have consequences...
ATK- AlliantTech will take the business then.
Stupid to become dependent on the Russians in the first place.
this is good news
it points out the vapid stupidity and naivete of the US policies that led America to be reliant on Russians for these functions
Now, can we go back name names and party affiliation of the geniuses who led us down this path?
at least we found out in “peacetime”
We haven’t had a space program for years now. We have an outreach program.
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision
of what is before them, glory and danger alike,
and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."~Thucydides
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The Russian rocket engine issue is real:
And it’s completely insane that we’re dependent upon Russian rockets for U.S. military space hardware. Congress ought to act. Oh, yeah. Right.
So, it looks like ‘ol Putin is playing chess while our fool of a President is playing Go Fish.
Actually NASA is far too involved with creating global climate disruption faux science to actually worry about aeronautics and/or space.
What with NASA’s Muslim outreach, perhaps we can use magic carpets to get our satellites into orbit.
Russia doesn’t know what it’s messing with.
We have football players kissing other dudes on TV! What now, Vlad?
And how many Americans are still land locked in Afghanistan with no decent way out except through Russia ? About 10,000 ?
The intelligence of outsourcing on full display. Enjoy. But at least a handful of Mohammadans feel good about the translating and copying of Greek textbooks from a while back.
If we are using Russian Rocket engines for military launches we were in trouble long before Obama decided to stick his Noses in Russian & Ukrainian affairs.
So the Russians will be out 60 million per person per trip. Their loss our gain.
