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Russian Cargo Ship Docks At ISS On Second Try
FleaPlus writes "Following up on a story from a few days ago about an unmanned Russian cargo ship's initial aborted attempt at docking with the International Space Station, Space.com reports that the vehicle made a second pass on July 4, which succeeded. Russian engineers believe the initial abort was triggered when the (normally reliable) Progress spacecraft detected interference between a remote control system on the ISS and Progress's camera. It successfully docked on the second try by using the autonomous system instead."
even though they pioneered almost every space "first" from 1957-1969).
Except they didn't. America literally had rockets and satellites placed in storage waiting for Russia to catch up. America understood the potential for intelligence gathering and desperately hoped the Russians would play into their hands. They did with the launch of Sputnik which created a precedence of allowing a foreign satellite from a foreign power to overfly another sovereign nation. Had America been first to actually execute, they feared the Russians would make a huge international incident about any overflights and would therefore establish an international precedent of it being illegal.
American was literally two or more years AHEAD of Russia in almost everything that mattered, right out of the gate. And their plan worked like a champ. The only thing they failed to account for in their plan was the American backlash against the incorrect perception of the Russians being years, if not decades, ahead of the US in space technology, after the launch of Sputnik went public.
The simple fact is, the Russians have almost always been far, far behind of the US in almost anything space related.
LMFAO
Super sekret plan to trick the Russians? Bullshit. Show some evidence outside your redneck survivalist conspiracy websites. The R7 derivatives kicked the arse of the Redstone and Vanguard rockets - and that is a historical fact I dare you to disprove.
LMFAO!
If only you understood how much of a fucking idiot you look like now!
The launch of Sputnik effectively ended those concerns by establishing a precedent that national boundaries did not extend into space.
In July 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower proposed an "Open Skies" policy whereby either nation would be allowed to fly reconnaissance aircraft over the other. He did that because they were nearing completion of their rocket which would be capable for orbital range and velocities.
Von Braun: I actually had the satellite in the trunk of my car; in 1957 Von Braun so was pissed by the order directly from Eisenhower to stop and mothball development, he continued development in secret but ALSO built the satellite despite presidential order to the contrary.
Tomorrow night PBS's NOVA will air Sputnik Declassified, which tells the story of how the U. S. could have beaten the Soviets into space, had it not been for military spy priorities that wanted the Soviets to, indeed, be first, thus establishing a precedent for our planned spy satellites that were very soon to map every Soviet ICBM launch site without fanfare or public pronouncement.
Vanguard was given the green light while Von Braun's project was mothballed by the president. Immediately after Vanguard's failure, Von Braun's project was removed from storage, prepped for launch, and launched. Their design worked right out of storage; having been placed there over a year before Sputnik's launch.
LMFAO! What a fucking idiot!!!! LOL!!!
Why are stupid people so fucking stupid they can't even bother to use something magical like a search engine - which is there EXACTLY for this fucking reason - to allow you to stop being so fucking stupid and lazy! What a fucking loser!
Now then, take your smug head out from your ass and think for but one second of your life. After the Russian's telling the US to piss off and that overflights would absolutely NOT be allowed, what would the world look like now had the US been the first to orbit? Absolutely NOTHING like the open sky policy the world currently enjoys today.
Basically, history, facts, people of high renown, and common sense all say you're a fucking idiot.