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Discovery Magazine reports that in a landmark decision Russia has announced initial plans to build a new orbital space station together with NASA to replace the International Space Station (ISS), which is set to operate until 2024.
Igor Komarov, the head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency, made the announcement flanked by NASA administrator Charles Bolden at Russia's Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan. "Roscosmos together with NASA will work on the programme of a future orbital station," said Komarov. "We agreed that the group of countries taking part in the ISS project will work on the future project of a new orbital station." Russia had said earlier this year it planned to create its own space station after 2024 using its modules from the ISS after it is mothballed. The two agencies will be unifying their standards and systems of manned space programs, according to Komarov. “This is very important to future missions and stations.”
The next goal for the two agencies is a joint mission to Mars said NASA chief Charles Bolden. “Our area of cooperation will be Mars. We are discussing how best to use the resources, the finance, we are setting time frames and distributing efforts in order to avoid duplication.”
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @11:35AM
So, let's see...
Russia is upgrading their military:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/russias-military-upgrade-wont-be-stopped-2015-3?r=US [businessinsider.com]
And leaving ISS to create their own space station *while* colonizing the Moon:
http://rt.com/news/157800-russia-moon-colonization-plan/ [rt.com]
At the same time they are running out foreign currency:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/russian-currency-reserves-are-running-out-2015-2?r=US [businessinsider.com]
... and price of brent is in 50 dollars.
Something tells me that the Russians are heading into some serious monetary problems in the near future.
(Score: 2) by TLA on Monday March 30 2015, @05:29PM
because they're running out of foreign cash??
What, their mineral and hydrocarbon wealth is nothing? Fuck's sake, they supply gas to half of Europe! They're NOT going broke ANY time soon!
Excuse me, I think I need to reboot my horse. - NCommander
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Monday March 30 2015, @06:22PM
"because they're running out of foreign cash??
What, their mineral and hydrocarbon wealth is nothing? Fuck's sake, they supply gas to half of Europe! They're NOT going broke ANY time soon!"
Must have missed the if you spend more than you take in you are broke/on the way to going broke lesson. Not really surprising you did with the mentality of most people in the world today...
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 2) by morgauxo on Tuesday March 31 2015, @07:06PM
"price of brent is in 50 dollars."
Ahh.. there's the crux of what is really bothering you. You are complaining about the price of your favorite russian gigolo!