RUSSIA, AMERICA AND CHINA: AN INEVITABLE TRIANGLE OF SPACE COOPERATION

From: Jim Oberg (jameseoberg_at_houston.rr.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:20:10 GMT

RUSSIA, AMERICA AND CHINA: AN INEVITABLE TRIANGLE OF SPACE COOPERATION

http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5320502&startrow=11&date=
2005-01-18&do_alert=0

2005-01-18 18:16 MOSCOW. (Andrei Kislyakov, RIA Novosti political
commentator.)

It seems that logic and common sense have prevailed after all in
international space relations, as the development of space exploration was
determined for a long time to come at the end of last year. Contrary to the
forecasts made by numerous skeptics in Russia and the United States, the two
countries agreed on the future of the main joint program: the International
Space Station (ISS). The good personal relationship shared by the Roskosmos
chief, Anatoly Perminov, and his U.S. counterpart, NASA director Sean
O'Keefe, and their high professionalism largely facilitated this. But if we
can see obvious progress in Russian-American relations in space exploration,
based on their common responsibility for the future of the interplanetary
station that has seen billions of dollars spent on it, the role of the third
space power, China, remained unclear until recently.

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