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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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @03:02AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @03:02AM (#739513)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:36PM (#739834)

    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.