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To: Salman
"Russians have reliable big boosters. As a sub-contractor, why not the Russians?"

Because, for example, the native U.S. rocket and booster business--and aerospace industry in general--is slowly disintegrating.

The Russians are dumping hardware because they are desperate for hard currency. Much of the hardware was developed when they called themselves "Socialist", and basically had no price since there was no way to compute economically-valid prices.

"Thank you for helping win the Cold War," U.S. aerospace workers are told. "Now go stand in the unemployment line while we buy cheap hardware from the enemy you helped defeat."

Let's see: Shuttle grounded. No more Titans. Atlas-V dependent upon a potentially hostile foreign source of engines. Delta-IV limited to military payloads only. Delta II nearing obsolescence. But let's go ahead and let what is left of the U.S. aerospace industry (particularly the launcher part) vanish into rust, and put our trust in people who tried assiduously to kill and/or enslave us all for 70 years. That's the ticket.

--Boris

19 posted on 01/15/2004 5:15:50 PM PST by boris (The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
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To: boris
The Russians are dumping hardware because they are desperate for hard currency. ===

It is stupid remerk it doesn't explain anything. Russia sells millions of tonns of oil and gas. And you still tell she is desperate?

Russian engineers simply smart enough to do the job for fraction of cost. That is the source of problem for american space industry.
21 posted on 01/15/2004 10:06:02 PM PST by RusIvan
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