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US to Pay to go to ISS
forgotten_my_nick writes "According to BBC News, Russia has announced that it will no longer ferry US astronauts to space for free (It has been doing so for two years). From 2006 the US will be expected to pay."
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The US has bankrolled the whole project.
Maybe the line item didn't read "payment for taking us to ISS", but our tax dollars have been funding the whole shebang.
International my ass. We should be going it alone, not bankrolling other nations science programs.
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They are correct; we are funding, if not building, nearly all of the station, even the limited core-complete version that was the plan immediately prior to Columbia's loss. The new core-complete plan, as shown here, shows launch methods. Items funded by other countries:
JEM (Japanese Experiment Module, Japan funded)
Columbus (European Research Module, EU funded)
Zvezda (Service module, Russia funded)
RRM (Russian Research Module, Russia funded if it ever launches)
This page has an accurate image showing who funded what. Of course, SPP is unlikely to ever be built at this point (according to the Russians), and RRM is unlikely as well, so shrink the Russian contribution considerably.
Russia funds/funded around 2 percent of ISS; the remainder comes from the US and other Western countries. And guess who funds the majority of that? That's right. The US.
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If they're going to openly be our enemies, kill them. We don't need to pay tribute to them.
The USA has put _far_ more into the ISS than any other nation.
So what? Would you like us to throw you a fucking parade? If you're upset, talk to your government, they seem to be fine with throwing huge amounts of cash at the ISS.
Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
The US should realize that we can't count on other countries. For anything. Take Russia for instance. We underwrite their space program by funding their portion of the ISS. Then, we pay for their Cosmonaut training. We foot the bill for tracking, logistical support, and rescue standby everytime they drop a capsule back down on Siberia.
Neither can we count on people like you to actually do your homework. What you fail to realise is that this is part of Russia putting the squeeze on to extort more money out of the US to build more spacecraft. Russia, meanwhile, is staring down the cash-spicket knowing it'll be shut off any second now because the Russian military can neither confirm nor deny it transferred missile technology to Iran.
And make no mistake, it's not simply the hundreds of millions that are going into the Baikonur Cosmodrome, but the potentially billions more that will be lost on sales of RSV Energiya products and booster sales when the US embargoes Russian space products. So kick back and giggle with glee that someone else is trying to shaft the US, but before you bliss out on schadenfreude, you might want to get a clue. Russia isn't doing us a favor. They're stiffing us like an immigrant taxi driver.
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I give this troll a 2 out of 10. Califonia is the most anti-american place on the planet. You should of said like Idaho or Iowa or something.
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