Wednesday, July 27, 2011
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
From Fox News by Jeremy A. Kaplan, Russia Plans to Sink the International Space Station in 2020
Russia’s space agency announced Wednesday that the International Space Station—a space base the world’s scientists and billions of U.S. tax dollars helped build and maintain some 200 miles above the surface of the Earth—will be de-orbited and allowed to sink into the Pacific Ocean in 2020, just like its Russian predecessor, Mir.
“We will be forced to sink the ISS. We cannot leave it in orbit as it is a very complicated and a heavy object,” Roscosmos’ deputy head Vitaly Davydov said in an interview posted on the agency’s website.
“We have agreed with our partners that the ISS would function roughly until 2020,” he noted.
A recent headline exclaimed that the era of Soyuz is upon us. Since Russia is the only ride to the International Space Station they probably figure they own it now. Whats to prevent them from just taking it? We have no way to get there thanks to the shortsightedness of Barack Obama. Thanks, Mr. President! Is it 2012 yet? Can’t get here soon enough.
Giving up our leadership in Space ought to be an impeachable offense. Some how it’s more important to invest in cowboy poetry than space exploration.
What a crime!
Posted by Steve on 07/27 at 05:14 PM
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