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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: 5, Funny) by VLM on Monday March 30 2015, @02:52PM
They're bipolar and we're tripolar with an extra third state of "bomb the hell out of some random brown country".
You take the two craziest most unpredictable girlfriends you've had, you've met, you've ever heard of, and reality TV show style make them roommates, and you pretty much got USA/Russia international relations for the last century or so, complete with screaming fights and alliances and grudges and just sheer madness.
Fundamentally both cultures make a big deal out of masculinity and forbidding women from leadership positions while pretending not to do so to keep them pacified, and then comically both act like two stereotypical hormonal teenage girls with severe PMS locked in a reality TV apartment together. It would be pretty funny if it weren't so dangerous.
"I cannot believe you dared to post on facebook that deploying my long range ballistic missile make my butt look fat" "I only did that because you were flirting with that cute Cuban guy you know I used to hate because they were connected to the JFK assassination back when grannie was our age but now I have a crush on him because he's just so cute and everyone other than me likes him anyway so now I like him too" "So what, a boy on twitter posted that you swallowed half of eastern Europe and liked doing it and I wasn't surprised to read that at all"