Re: Space station future adrift (Soyuz purchase crisis)

From: Joann Evans (bondage_at_frontiernet.net)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:13:26 GMT

Henry Spencer wrote:
>
> >If the yanks can't send money to Russia, perhaps they could get China to
> >supply the "Soyuz" in exchange for becoming a member of the ISS ?
>
> Distinctly unlikely. Many of the people currently in power in Washington
> have gotten there partly by howling with alarm about the Yellow Peril:
> how the evil Chinese were stealing US technology and how the traitorous
> Democrat scum in the White House and Congress were letting them get away
> with it. Serious space cooperation with China would require a major
> policy turnaround, and years of effort mending the rather frayed relations
> between the two countries.

   And even if you got it, it would be a fragile thing that one more
incident with a recon plane (or similar event) could delay further, or
shatter....

> A lifeboat by that route is just not in the
> cards right now.

   Besides, the Soyuz design has a long operational history behind it.
We pretty much understand it. Shenzhou, though similar, has flown manned
only once so far. Hou much would we want it, on that basis, alone? 

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