Because the guy is wrong, or, more precisely, misleading. Where in his list is the Pirs module, funded, built and launched by Russia? And where is the experience for long-serving space laboratories, which only Russia had prior to ISS (Skylab has just three rather short, by today standards, missions)? Mind you, it is because that experience Russia spends around 2% of the cost of ISS, but has the rights to about 30% of that.
The current state of ISS is that of 6 modules - Zarya, Node 1, Zvezda, Destiny, Quest and Pirs - the half is built in Russia, and two f those three are funded by Russia. No, it's definitely not the american station.
Just try to imagine a Soyuz-based mission to fix the Hubble.
I don't see any problems here at all. What specifically makes you say it can't be done? The Soyuz can be brought to the same orbital plane as Hubble. The Soyuz can maneuver in space - and if you think it doesn't have enough fuel, just send a Progress ship to dock with Soyuz. The Soyuz has airlock. The Soyuz can fly with two people onboard, and extra cargo, needed for repairs, can be taken along.
Best of all, all of that was already successfully tried. Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 have docked in space in 1969. Progress was used to boost the orbit of another ship, ISS in this case. The Soyuz' airlock is the orbital module. Soyuz have flown with two people on board. Soyuz was actually used to repair a station in space, when all the control was lost.
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Because the guy is wrong, or, more precisely, misleading. Where in his list is the Pirs module, funded, built and launched by Russia? And where is the experience for long-serving space laboratories, which only Russia had prior to ISS (Skylab has just three rather short, by today standards, missions)? Mind you, it is because that experience Russia spends around 2% of the cost of ISS, but has the rights to about 30% of that.
The current state of ISS is that of 6 modules - Zarya, Node 1, Zvezda, Destiny, Quest and Pirs - the half is built in Russia, and two f those three are funded by Russia. No, it's definitely not the american station.
Just try to imagine a Soyuz-based mission to fix the Hubble.
I don't see any problems here at all. What specifically makes you say it can't be done? The Soyuz can be brought to the same orbital plane as Hubble. The Soyuz can maneuver in space - and if you think it doesn't have enough fuel, just send a Progress ship to dock with Soyuz. The Soyuz has airlock. The Soyuz can fly with two people onboard, and extra cargo, needed for repairs, can be taken along.
Best of all, all of that was already successfully tried. Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 have docked in space in 1969. Progress was used to boost the orbit of another ship, ISS in this case. The Soyuz' airlock is the orbital module. Soyuz have flown with two people on board. Soyuz was actually used to repair a station in space, when all the control was lost.