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).
Previously:
NASA Suspends Collaboration with Russia
Russia to Build New Space Station with NASA after ISS
NASA and Roscosmos Sign Joint Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station
Russia Assembles Engineering Group for Lunar Activities and the Deep Space Gateway
China Will Focus on a Lunar Surface Station Rather than a Lunar Orbiting Station
NASA and Roscosmos Release Joint Statement on ISS Leak Amid Rumors
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NASA and International Partners Planning Orbital Lunar Outpost
President Trump Praises Falcon Heavy, Diminishes NASA's SLS Effort
NASA's Chief of Human Spaceflight Rules Out Use of Falcon Heavy for Lunar Station
This Week in Space Pessimism: SLS, Mars, and Lunar Gateway
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Sulla on Monday September 24 2018, @09:28PM (3 children)
Trump is actually trying to make a firm peace and working relationship with the Russians, this requires a little placation and kindness instead of outward bitterness and rage.
Unless of course you want continued degrading relations and possible war, but you couldn't possible want that, could you?
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @10:21PM (2 children)
I'm all for trying to build friendly diplomatic relations with other countries instead of going to war, but I don't think that quite requires becoming someone's itty bitty bitch AKA "a little placation and kindness".
So far Trump has snuggled up with all the worst dictators in the world while trashing US relations with all the more democratic ones. Get a clue already!!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @03:02AM (1 child)
The only thing that makes me sometimes wonder if the OMG Russia! Stalin! Lenin! KGB! Meddling! narrative isn't total bullshit is the character of the other... fine world citizens @realDonaldTrump takes a liking to. It's also possible both that Putin is a thug and that the Russia narrative is bullshit.
Perhaps it is not good that the major nuclear powers are on a collision course. Yet how can that be helped? What do all people with power want? More power. Glib but true. The use of nuclear weapons is inevitable. Perhaps we should just get it over with.
May our grandchildren forgive us. If they curse us instead, it would be entirely justified.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:36PM
I think it's more that he has mid-lined relationships instead of polarizing them. Putin is not treated as some demonic evil force that eats babies for lunch, and e.g. western EU member states are no longer treated as our beloved children that we should pamper and care for even at great cost and sacrifice to ourselves. Pair these two events together and it creates an image of neglecting allies and favoring enemies. In reality, it is the US treating the rest of the world as other sovereign nations. Well except Israel. It's apparently still our beloved child that must be pampered and cared for at all costs.