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Russia's Role in the ISS in Trouble
Uhh_Duh writes "cnn.com is reporting that the Russian space program has fallen on hard times and is no longer capable of launching independent missions due to budget problems. The article touches on the fact that their annual funding is about 309 million versus the U.S. budget of 15 billion. They've also announced that they will not be meeting most of their future deliverables for the international space station." (corrected, the title originally said "IIS" instead of "ISS)
Carry all of the boy bands into space for $100 million...then take bids on an open auction to leave them there...
We better tell the Soviet Russians that if they don't pay up, all their space base are belong to us.
Please try to keep posts on topic.
An American astronaut in space in 1970 was asked by a reporter, "How do you feel?"
"How would you feel," the astronaut replied, "if you were stuck here, on top of 20,000 parts, each one supplied by the lowest engineering bidder?"
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
...can't they compensate with pitch and yaw?
Next time add a few obvious spelling errors in the post so that the editors don't have to add them themselves.
1) The International Space Station becomes the American Space Station due to the lack of participation from other nations.
2) 10 years from now, the full project is launched. Yeah, this is hypothetical, just deal.
3) Teachers get excited and want to show their students the breaking news at cnn.com.
4) Censorware detects "ASS" all over the site and denies the teachers and students access to the biggest NASA news in years.