The head of Russia's space agency says it is suspending ISS cooperation with NASA and the European Space Agency amid Western sanctions

Insider ^ | 4/2/22 | Sam Tabahriti

[icclearly]

Way to go Brandon!

Paybacks are hell.

[Lazamataz]

Biden (and thus, Obama) have singlehandedly reignited the Cold War.

[Diogenesis]

they told NASA to use their 'brooms'.

[Secret Agent Man]

All I know is if it was Trump doing all this, they’d have impeachment hearings going on.

You know, because tney had them going for far less.

[David Chase]

My Mother In-law is accident prone……..

[griswold3]

Seems the “Progressives” didn’t think there would be repercussions.

[denydenydeny]

Another foreign policy triumph for Dementia Joe.

[Regulator]

Predictable

So what’s Rogozin gonna do? Takeover the station, have his guys prevent the next Dragon flight from docking?

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Putin’s so-called Space Program is in shambles. They consolidated all their space work into one location. When they had so much trouble launching and maintaining the program, Putin discovered an ‘unusual’ amount of thieving and graft. I state ‘unusual’ because 10% to 20% graft was understood, but this time they stole so much that they could not perform. I imagine more than a few heads rolled.

While we can still fly a helicopter on Mars, Putin will hurt Russia and its neighbors until he is stopped.

[Truth29]

The Russians control some of the key stabilization equipment which is in one of the Russian modules. If they stop maintaining that equipment, the station will start to encounter increased drag and will slowly fall out of orbit.

[mcshot]

How soon before it reenters the atmosphere? Going to be a cool light show for some.

[icclearly]

“ While we can still fly a helicopter on Mars, Putin will hurt Russia and its neighbors until he is stopped.”

Is that you on FR, Xiden?

[butlerweave]

Russia can remove the first section of ISS the US has one in a warehouse built in case the Russian one failed to get in orbit

[BiglyCommentary]

Screw Putin. The US should have never the outrageous fees charges. Glad that is a hard stop.

[Lurker]

“but this time they stole so much that they could not perform.L

Kind of like his military.

L

[roadcat]

If they stop maintaining that equipment, the station will start to encounter increased drag and will slowly fall out of orbit.

Won't happen. Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos will form a partnership to salvage the ISS after the astronauts leave, and will convert it to a space hotel. They'll boost the ISS to a higher altitude with thrusters, and sell tickets to private thrill-seekers.

[JoSixChip]

Putin’s so-called Space Program is in shambles. While we can still fly a helicopter on Mars,

You do realize that we've had to pay Russia to transport our astronauts to and from the ISS for the last decade, right?

[buwaya]

SpaceX can do it now. I think Russia has been charging bargain rates, even below what SpaceX would charge (though SpaceX has long undercut Russian rates for satellite launch services), but SpaceX can take over this service also.

[JoSixChip]

After the way that the biden admin has been vengefully screwing with Elon, I would not be surprised if Elon to them to F* off the same way Russia is. At any rate, Elon only has a few man rated capsules. Not enough to handle the current needs.

[buwaya]

You don’t understand Musk.
Rescuing the astronauts will be a propaganda coup vs the US administration. Its something he can throw in their teeth.