johnbpatson
Your country invades Ukraine and you threaten Europe and the world with nuclear weapons…Never mind, come on in to the space station party! Incredible.
Your country invades Ukraine and you threaten Europe and the world with nuclear weapons…Never mind, come on in to the space station party! Incredible.
The Russians have already put everyone on notice that they are terminating their involvement with the International Space Station and joining the Chinese with their new and more modern private military station now under construction in space. We should have simply said we are taking you up on your withdrawal - immediately!
It’s not clear why, when we are imposing severe sanctions on Russia for the Ukraine invasion, which threatens peace in Europe and in which Putin intimates he could use nuclear weapons, we are hosting a Russian cosmonaut on an ISS crew mission–particularly when Russia has its own means to carry its personnel. Are NASA, the State Department, and the National Security Council talking to one another?
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I’m just glad Elon Musk and SpaceX is so successful. Our leader can’t form a sentence. How are we going to resolve the space issue.
The Russian and US segments of the ISS cannot just be split or shut-out. It doesn’t work like that.
But the limp response is a consequence of weak leadership and poor decisions by the US regarding it’s space policy for a long time.
Last time I looked Russia and the United States were separated by a narrow body of water, not much wider than that which separates Crimea from Russia. One reason why the states should be concerned when Russia invades its neighbours – or does Alaska not count?