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Posted on 04/16/2015 3:24:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"By 2023, we plan to create our own national space station in orbit. This is something far-off in the future, but also necessary for us from the point of view of our national economy," Putin said. Russia and NASA recently agreed to keep operating and financing the International Space Station (ISS) at least until 2024, but future joint space projects remain in doubt, as relations between Russia and the United States have plunged to post-Cold War lows over the Ukraine conflict.
The Kremlin strongman said that Russia needed its own space station to be able to view its own territory properly from space. "We use the ISS actively for science and the economy, but from the ISS only five per cent of the area of Russia can be seen. From a national station, we should be able to see the whole of the area of our huge country. It goes without saying we will bring this project to fruition, and without any doubt, it will be under our control," the Russian president said.
Russia said earlier this year that it planned to create its own space station using its modules from the ISS after it is mothballed. In March, the head of Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), said at Baikonur after meeting his NASA counterpart that Russia would work jointly with the US on a project of a new orbital station.
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Hey Bender would you “greeted” Vlady LOL!
Oh, yeah, I'd feel safe in there . . .
I hear a Russian WAR Station in SPACE in the making.
The Ruskies could 'see' their entire country with a couple satellites at a much lower cost. Not sure a war station is the goal, but it is certainly not to see their country.
They sure have a lot of expensive projects coming, ‘at some time in the future’.
Their economy must be booming.
Vlad doesn’t have enough money to do this.
Best get cranking out hard on that Gov. issued Vodka to your inebrated populace to pay for that Vladi, oil isn’t the answer.
I know that’s right.
Only a capitalist society could build that station and Vlad knows it. Ask Motorola and Honeywell.
I wanna see Vlad pull the ±10 trillion rubles out of his ass to cover it...and that’s a lowball estimate. I wonder, are there even 10 trillion rubles in physical existence?
will they have a Bake Sale to get the money ,LOL
“that Gov. issued Vodka”
Bought some Russian vodka the other day, Green Mark. Just awful rotgut!
This guy is rapidly approaching kook status.
After the Russians take their bits of the ISS and go their separate way, the US-owned portions will be abandoned, with the money saved used back on earth for NASA-led LGBT and Muslim outreach projects
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