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Russia imposes sanctions on the Kwa - Will no longer subsidize NASA
Russia kills off International Space Station programme saying it won't co-operate with Nasa because of sanctions imposed over seizure of Crimea from Ukraine
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NASA hoped to keep ISS running past 2020 until 2024 or 2028, but that was dependent on funding and continued Russian cooperation, so the US has pretty much screwed itself with their idiotic "sanctions" on Russia. The Russians can simply un-dock their segment of the station since it has its own power, life-support and orbital maneuvering capability. The "Zvezda", "Zarya" and "Pirs" modules are based on designs from the earlier "Mir" space station and Zarya was the very first component of ISS, launched back in 1998. Most attitude control and orbital boosts are performed by the thrusters on the Russian segment, with an occasional helping hand by the Space Shuttle, the Russian "Progress" supply vehicles and the European Automated Transfer Vehicle. The US segment is more or less reliant on these and the Russian modules for this critical function now that the Shuttle is no longer flying.
If the Russians really want to ground the US manned space program, they should go ahead and detach their segment of ISS and ban NASA astronauts from hitching any more rides in the Soyuz spacecraft. Russia should ditch the lost-cause US as a space partner and join with China which is planning a space station for the 2020s, manned missions to the Moon and eventually Mars. |
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Obongo kills our space program.
Obongo imposes sanctions on Russia. Does this dumb nigger even think before he acts? |
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Go to http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com and read the recent piece, [Chuck] Yeager Bombed, regarding affirmative action astronaut Captain Ed Dwight.
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The real reason the Russkies are pulling the plug is because they found out that NASA was planning on sending up that bearded Austrian Eurovision freak on a future mission to serenade the planet.
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