Russian Kliper not Funded by ESA

anzha writes "It seems that while the Russians are making plans for the future, they are doing so alone. Space.com has an article profiling the Russian Kliper program. Largely seen as a response to the American CEV, the Russians had been stating the ESA would be supporting the enterprise as well. However, this week, ESA decided not to fund the project."

Comments

Possible Reason

[bullitB]

Maybe the ESA was concerned the Kliper would have too high a chance of success, thus ruining their pass project record.

Re:Possible Reason

[hador_nyc]

Maybe they just would rather jump on Virgin Galatic? Branson's and Burt Rutan's new spaceline looks promising; even if they aren't talking about orbit for atleast another generation or two down the road; spaceship version that is.

I'm only half kidding...

ESA?

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, ESA funds you.

Re:ESA?

[Anonymous Coward]

If it were the same old Soviet Russia joke, then yes, you're spot on.

But it isn't. It's a pastiche on the entire genre of Soviet Russia jokes that goes from predictable to subversive, relying on the fact that the actual topic is on Russia.

However, you'll notice that it's not on Soviet Russia, it's on modern Russia.

Modern Russia is not getting funding for the Kliper project from the ESA. A responce to this could be, "If this were Soviet Russia, you would get funding from the ESA."

Or rephrase, "In Soviet Russia, ESA fund you!"

Where have I seen this before?

[shaneh0]

The fastest growing job in the space industry has got to be doing concept drawings.

Ohhhhh yeeeaaaah, we have a surrrrging aerospace industry. Our engineers drew almost 1.2 Trillion--with a T--dollars worth of spaceships, last quarter alone. This is a *10% increase* over the same period last year, where only 1,120,234,323 tons of spaceship were drawn.

Analysts are expecting another great year of spaceship drawing in 2006. Even amid these boom years, some are warning against irrational exuberence. "It may seem crazy now, but we could reach a point where people actually stop responding to concept drawings of spaceships and may want actual spaceships." You be the judge.

honest question..

[dartarrow]

why do we spend $795 million to bring back space rocks...?

Re:honest question..

[lbrandy]

why do we spend $795 million to bring back space rocks...?

First of all, that's a pretty lowball figure... we've spent alot more then that.

Secondly, and more to the point, because it's worth it. Well, not the rocks. But you get the point. In other words, your question is essentially the same as: Why did I spend 6000$ just to make some electrons hit xeon and neon gas.... Yes it seems silly when you put it that way, however no one can argue with truth of my findings based upon my experiment: boobes + plasma television = very clear, very bright, giant boobies. And that knowledge is worth every damm penny.

now i'm really proud to be an eu-citizen but:

[legalize.ganja.now.]

"the Russians had been stating the ESA would be supporting the enterprise as well."
which enterprise? SS NX-01? USS NCC-1701? A,B,C,D,E,J?

This is how it went....

[speedplane]

Hi. We're really smart scientists from Russia. Cool! We've got some cool ideas on how to transfer humans back and forth from space. Great! We've done all of the design work. Wow! Now give us money so we can build it. No. Fudge.