Re: US/Russia Space Troubles

From: Joann Evans (bondage_at_frontiernet.net)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:54:29 GMT

Ed Kyle wrote:
>
> UPI/Washington Times Story at:
> "http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20041230-125118-6046r.htm"
> says that things are cooling between US and Russia - that the
> recent "No More Free Ride for NASA Astronauts" story is only
> part of a bigger problem between the Bush and Putin governments.
> It basically says that Russia's space program is currently
> thriving while the US space program is non-functional and
> dependant on Russia.
>
> The story begs this question. Should NASA complete ISS and
> continue this disfunctional space co-habitation with Russia, or
> might it not be time to pull the plug on ISS *and* the failed
> shuttle experiment?
>
> I'm starting to think that it is time to shut it (ISS/STS) down.
> To restructure NASA and start, with some clean-slate ugency,
> whatever comes next. My opinion solidified when I read a Pravda
> story yesterday that said, in essence, that Russia should work
> to beat the US to Mars.
>
> - Ed Kyle

   Try not to find yourself unintentionally in league with those who
would be quite content with shutting down NASA manned space activities,
and replacing them with...nothing. 

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