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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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Russia has also announced that it expects the US to hold up to its end of the bargain and commit to finishing its sections of the International Space Station.
Oh wait, that's right, the US is building almost the entire thing...
Ideally each country was to chip in for the ISS. The US has already done more than its share IIRC.
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Let's be fair and charge them rent in form of flights to the US, er, "International" Space station.
how excally does 'mankind' benifit from by going into space? the only reason anyone went there in the first place (if they actually did), was to show up the other guys. It has never been about cooperation, rather it's all about the competition and screwing over the other guy.
one small step for mankind my ass.
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It has taken two so-called space tourists into space in recent years for $20m each, and Mr Perminov said Russia was in discussions to send two more tourists in 2006.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, SPACE TOURS YOU!!
Has anyone repaid America for anything America has done for them (france world war ii)... America, it seems, just hands out money to whoever for whatever. So.. this isn't really a surprise, is it?
Evolution is a state-sponsored, state-protected religion.
what a suprise for me to read such comments. what a suprise...
i've heard that usa wants to go to mars, is it right? how are you going there, guys? by amtrak train? or may be the same way like you did your famous trips to iraq - by big galaxys from lockheed, or may be on nimitz? unfortunately nimitz it's huge enough to scare poor iraqies, but not applicable for space traveling, just remind you.
for last two years russia was doing all, i must emphasize, all flights to iss. more than that - russian space-suits were in use for all open space activities, even for usa' astronauts (what a ugly name you guys invented!). i shouldn't say anything about technologies and more - experience - what usa got for free from russia, and already using it for quite long period.
usa may be powerfull country to conquer iraq and afganistan, but not to conquer space. you have obvious lack of smart people - begining from your president and ending by your nasa' head. with such a enourmous nasa budget it's impossible to do not make foolproof and reliable shuttle, even paul allen could make it with much less money. nasa farted all.
that's all why russia stops doing all stuff for "free". why "free"? because it wasn't free - russia was paying back. now it's time to dictate our rules.
prepare to loose iss control, cow boys...
Yeah, because we all know how bush has ceased the election of governors, and has consolidated the press and much of private industry under government control. And we've been attempting to interfere with soveriegn elections what disagreed wih Washington policy. Also, we have not been acting as if the world was our enemy, just terrorists, and their backers. meanwhile, Putin is distancing Russia further and further from democracy. but hey who the fuck cares right, BUSH=BAD.
Putin is leadng Russia towards fascism, deal with it. the US is not the greatest evil in the world. I can't see how Europeans can get so outraged over the patriot act and visit us, but claim that islamofascism is just the culture of the middle east and its their god given right to mutilate, stone, and otherwise oppress their women, ethnic minorities, and political dissidents. but hey, the US toppled Saddam, so we're worse than the Nazis.
Why do i even bother feeding the trolls?
Three to one we could get Bush to use it in a speech before noticing the problem with it.
"I object to doing things that computers can do." -- Olin Shivers, lispers.org
Chernopol maybe?
The USA spends about $38 billion a year on forign aid, and very rarely gets anything back. Must help between nations be entirely one-sided?
Thanks I was fishing for your double standard responses. First the original poster pointed out that Americans are evil because some moron came up with Freedom Fries. Yes that makes sense. I pointed out that a few Frenchman spray painted swastikas on American graves in Normandy (Fox News ? Try The Guardian) , knowing that it was a few boneheads, probably kids not an entire people/nation. you see? It's OK to bash all Americans for the %51 who are morons, but according to your standards, you can't apply the same logic to anyone else.
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator"-Adolf Hitler or George W Bush?