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I wonder how awkward the atmosphere is on the ISS. Scientists and astronauts are by no means the most hawkish people, but it can't be the most comfortable setting either. Specially since astronaut are often former armed forces personnel. Anton Shkaplerov, one of the current cosmonauts on the ISS, used to be in the Russian air force. Mark T. Vande Hei, one of the current astronauts was in the US army, etc.
I think they're all good.
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Three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station on Friday wearing yellow flight suits with blue accents, colors that appeared to match the Ukrainian flag. The men were the first new arrivals on the space station since the start of the Russian war in Ukraine last month.
He's still talking big. His latest about the European Space Agency and the French Guiana launch site:
"Dmitry Rogozin to TASS: The #SoyuzSTB launch complex at the Kourou cosmodrome may be mothballed forever, because Russia doesn't need "such an unreliable partner" as @ESA, which behaves in a "crazy way."
He's still talking big. His latest about the European Space Agency and the French Guiana launch site:
"Dmitry Rogozin to TASS: The #SoyuzSTB launch complex at the Kourou cosmodrome may be mothballed forever, because Russia doesn't need "such an unreliable partner" as @ESA, which behaves in a "crazy way."
Since the European Space Agency consists of 22 full members with a combined GDP of 12x that of Russia, I'm sure the collective ESA response is something along the lines of "Okay... whatever... bye, Felicia!"
Since the European Space Agency consists of 22 full members with a combined GDP of 12x that of Russia, I'm sure the collective ESA response is something along the lines of "Okay... whatever... bye, Felicia!"
OneWeb announced yesterday they've made a deal with SpaceX to deliver their satellites after Roscosmos refused to launch their payload on March 5 and so far has not returned the 36 satellites that were already loaded on the Soyuz. OneWeb has about 200 satellites left to place to complete the buildout of their constellation.
With the vast amounts of time (decades) and billions of dollars internationally spent on the ISS, there's no way a handful of idiots are going to destroy it prematurely and risk deaths.
Update on the IIS and Russia's participation in the program:
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The head of Russia’s space program said Moscow will pull out of the International Space Station, state media reported, a move it has blamed on sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine. “The decision has been taken already, we’re not obliged to talk about it publicly,” Tass and RIA Novosti reported Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin as saying in an interview with state TV on Saturday.
Well hopefully NASA has been planning for this eventuality already.
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