Comments on: Russian skepticism http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/07/04/russian-skepticism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russian-skepticism Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Rich Barry http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/07/04/russian-skepticism/#comment-3507 Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:28:13 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=591#comment-3507 Can’t blame the Russians for rubbing some salt in our self inflicted wounds now can we? The US critisized them for delays in Station construction and noted how poverty stricken their space program was. The US has been sanctimonious about their helping the Mullah’s build the bomb. The US side is now designing a space transportation system along the lines the Russian’s invented 40 years ago. Crew capusle for the crew and big dumb boosters for the cargo. So let the Russian’s smirk. The fact is without the US for the next 10 years supporting the station, no other combination of countries know the software for our stuff, nor the schematics, nor have the funding.

]]> By: Greg Kuperberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/07/04/russian-skepticism/#comment-3506 Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:33:02 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=591#comment-3506 Griffin plans to halve the infamous schedule of 28 shuttle flights, so Kislyakov is at least half correct. Moreover, if his speculations are unsupported, so are Bush’s and Griffin’s assurances that the space station will still satisfy international obligations. These illogical and smarmy declarations are only plausible to certain American audiences.

Another ironic wrinkle the Russians have noticed the Republican propaganda line that Clinton’s invitation of Russia was the worst thing to ever happen to the space station. Although it is not completely false, it was meant more as a condemnation of Clinton than as any kind of statement about the Russian Space Agency. But now that kind of talk, which I’m sure the Russians noticed, is no help to Griffin or Bush.

Speaking of Dana Rohrabacher, just last August he said:

The Iranians have made it clear they are moving forward on the bomb. Even though I have more focus than most people on making the space station a success, I am not going to do anything that would signal a weakening of our resolve.

But now Rohrabacher wants to be realistic. Consistency is not the man’s strong suit.

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