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posted by chromas on Monday September 24 2018, @05:12PM   Printer-friendly

Russia throws doubt on joint lunar space station with U.S.: RIA

Moscow may abandon a project to build a space station in lunar orbit in partnership with U.S. space agency NASA because it does not want a "second fiddle role," a Russian official said on Saturday.

[...] [The] head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said Russia might exit the joint program and instead propose its own lunar orbit space station project.

[...] A spokesman for Roscosmos said later that Russia had no immediate plans to leave the project. "Russia has not refused to take part in the project of the lunar orbit station with the USA," Vladimir Ustimenko was quoted as saying by the TASS news agency.

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Also at ABC (Associated Press).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @06:13PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @06:13PM (#739299)

    Is this news accurate, or do we have gellman amnesia effect here?

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Monday September 24 2018, @06:35PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday September 24 2018, @06:35PM (#739322) Journal

    Their ISS cash cow could be going away as soon as next year. They don't do any major space exploration missions like NASA does and their Fobos-Grunt mission was a failure. Their upcoming rockets are not competitive with Falcon Heavy and BFR.

    Michael Crichton is an overrated dead man.

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    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @07:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @07:05PM (#739340)

      Hmm, chrichton just gave a name to it, so not sure why that came up. It is extremely common, there is even a catchier new name for it...

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Monday September 24 2018, @07:43PM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 24 2018, @07:43PM (#739362) Journal
    Why are you asking rather than coming up with a real argument? Notice that the list of Russian achievements only had two since 1970 and those two are default wins (that is, because the US isn't yet competing). Introduce manned flights by SpaceX and others, then the position of Russia will be far from secure.
    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @11:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @11:44PM (#739452)

      Why are you asking rather than coming up with a real argument?

      Because the essence of the effect is that you don't even know what questions to ask...