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Europe to Join Russia Building Next Space Shuttle
An anonymous reader writes "Development agreement takes shape during the Paris Air Show
It's all but official--Russia and Europe will soon embark on a cooperative effort to build a next-generation manned space shuttle. Speaking at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, France, in June, Russian space officials confirmed earlier reports from Moscow that their partners at the European Space Agency would join the Russian effort to build a new reusable orbiter, dubbed Kliper."
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the EU and not this! ha.
but the rest of the worlds collective dicks are bigger than ours...
The EU seems to be all talk, talk talk. Mars missions, GPS satellite, blah,blah,blah. They are broke. Russia could do it with funding but anyome would be weary of throwing money into a Russian blak hole.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
I don't see how anyone can think the US is falling behind when a couple guys in a garage in Mojave are pretty much doing the same thing as this EU/Russian partnership.
"Today, we at NASA are pleased to announce our next manned mission. NASA has always been committed to manned exploration, in the past and in the future. We proudly announce that our next mission is the manned exploration of the parking lot of Cape Kennedy. We know that this is dangerous but we are confident that our engineers and our brave parkonouts and God willing we will be able to return the crew with no casualties. We plan to launch in September 2015, of course we will delay this as necessary for safety reasons
Oh boy. And those Russians, they must be eager to finally have a space program of their own ;-)
North America and Europe are falling behind - the Chinese are coming and this time, their plans don't include their Red Army. I don't see any real (as in long-term) concepts and in 50 years or so we might see them as the #1 political (as in backed by military) power of the world.
Oh, come off it. You could be more nonsensical, but it would be difficult. You could as easily say Europe and Russia get all upset and react with a mix of anger, contempt and disdain when the US disagrees with them. Eg Kyoto, Iraq. (Bolton!? what kind of crack do you have to be on to assume that other countries should have a say in the ambassador a nation decides to send to the UN? I have a far greater problem with shithole despotic countries like Zimbabwe even having a SAY in a world organization.)
... and it even got modded up!
Now tell us, how is 'space' a 'big problem'?
And how exactly do you loose [sic] if Europe and Russia decide to build a reusable orbiter? What 'future' you allude to is Russia building by reconfiguring the Soyuz with European help that makes you pine for it?
Talk about your retarded hysterical overreactions
Oy! Where to start... So this is all because of things that have happened in the last 5 years huh?
... need cooperation from all the international community, and splitting into competing factions will only lead to failure.
The French only helped us during the Revolution becasue we were fighting the British. The French have ALWAYS thought themselves superior to the US and every other country.
Heck go back 30 years or so back to the Kadaffi bombing. (or google if you are clueless)
So France wants to prove themselves on the world stage??? Go for it! They can't hardly keep their healtcare system afloat, I'm not sure how they are going to fund space travel. (on an on going basis)But let them rock on with their bad self.
Why not take you head out of your "I hate Bush" butt and learn a little history?
Then you moronically say:
This is a very bad development for everyone. The big problems like space,
Yeah, it was cooperation and not competition that put a man on the moon! Did you sleep thru every history class?
[I'm not knocking the French- but it is history.]
Isn't it the mood in which Chirac and Schroeder live? Until next elections would wipe them out as they are so incompetent on internal matters that they can't use that to hide their international failures. And kissing up to Russia is a kind of French tradition, at least since they kicked the Napoleon's ass.