I’m confused, why are we asking permission to use our own $%#^ing space station???? We designed it, hauled it up there and assembled it, so the (&)*& are the Russians to say who gets to use it????
My thoughts as well.
You bought a house in the hills but sold your jeep for a fiat 500. Good luck
from Wiki ISS is a joint US-Russian venture.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. It is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998.[7] Now the largest artificial body in orbit, it can often be seen at the appropriate time with the naked eye from Earth.[8] The ISS consists of pressurised modules, external trusses, solar arrays and other components. ISS components have been launched by American Space Shuttles as well as Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets.[9] In 1984 the ESA was invited to participate in Space Station Freedom.[10] After the USSR dissolved, the United States and Russia merged Mir-2 and Freedom together in 1993.[9]
I suppose they’ll let us use it, but we have to drive there without their help.
The Russkies are currently the only ones with the lift capability to get our folks to-and-from it, thanks to the Obamanation mothballing our shuttle fleet and putting them on display like museum pieces. That’s who they are.
IMO, and I have stated so on this forum a number of times, it was a horses ass idea to refer to our space station as an international space station.
We paid for about 90% of the cost of putting that space station up there. So instead of calling it Space Station USA or whatever, we caved and gave it away in name.
Can someone tell me who would have refused to go to Space Station USA? Who would have refused to provide some modules for it?
We are a nation that is in full melt-down abdication.
Man, watching this is painful.
They don't claim to be deciding who uses it; They are just asserting their ownership of the launch vehicles facilities.
The US chose to transform space-related funding to additional welfare.
Can't blame the Russians for that!