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US to Pay to go to ISS

Posted by samzenpus on from the buy-a-pass dept.

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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  1. Re:in... by secretsquirel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Congratulations Mr. Coward!, I didn't think this was possible, but I think that you have actually managed to drag the whole soviet russia thing even further down into the pit of shame than it already is. That or I just didn't get it, but I've thought about it for a minute and I'm pretty sure it just blew.

  2. Re:WTG Russia. by Refrag · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But Mars has WMDs!

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  3. Re:Hasn't the USA helped Russia before? by walterbyrd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously: can somebody please explain to me why this is considered a troll?

    I have no problem with anybody disagreeing with me, but is any point of view that doesn't suck up to the party line a troll?

  4. Re:Russia seems different since the school inciden by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're the one misleading here. We don't know when La Palma will fall. It will happen from tomorrow to a millenium from now. We don't know and we're not watching it either.

    Are you saying you somehow know it won't happen in the next month? (there's no activity now, so it obviously won't happen tomorrow) That's more than the geologists who study this stuff know, so you ought to talk to them about it.

    What we do know is that a Mega-tsunami will hit the US. That's all the .sig says. If you read more into it, that's an interpretation. If you think the .sig will get people to read about the problem, so much the better - maybe it'll save a few million lives.

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