July 26, 2022
Don't let the airlock door hit you on the way out.
Russia's space chief says the country will focus on building its own orbiting outpost.
The Russians never did much for us, except to provide a rather rickety launch vehicle after the BHO (Obama) canceled the Shuttle.
The station was supposed to be named Freedom and was supposed to be an American project. But we cut a bunch of freeloading foreigners in and turned it into the "International Space Station" and it has had little value since.
I opposed the station anyway; we should have gone back to the Moon, and established a permanent base there. Used the base to build a mining and industrial platform and used that to explore deeper. The station - in low orbit inside the magnetic field and in micro-gravity - had no real purpose. They did experiments like trying to get seeds to grow, but that could as easily have been done on the Moon. We would have learned much more about life in space there, outside the protective layer of the magnetic field. Basically the ISS was a poor weigh station. Not fully in space but not on Earth either, it had no real purpose.
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Posted by: Bill H at July 26, 2022 10:19 PM (Q7br2)
There are Russian-built modules which can only be efficiently be operated by the Rusian crew members because the American crew is not trained on them and the US does not have schematics for them.
You are not in a particularly secure place to be critical of Russian technology, since your website is unresponsive about 50% of the time when I attempt to connect to it. Often it is so dead that I do not even get a timeout message, just a dead connection. You should get your own house in order before you sound off about Russia’s "rickety vehicles.â€
Posted by: Bill H at July 26, 2022 10:26 PM (Q7br2)
NASA plans on decommissioning the space station by 2031 anyway. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/271297/20220201/nasa-decommissioning-iss-2031%E2%80%94extends-support-2024-2030-will-destroy.htm This may just make them do it early. Actually, we've done about all we can do with the space station. And they've had problems with the thing being infected with e-coli and whatnot.
If the Russians have such great technology why haven't they won the war in Ukraine by now? Hmmm?
And the Russians are the good folks who gave us Chernobyl, and they actually reused parts from the reactor in other nuclear reactors! That is not just a bit disturbing.
Would you feel safer risking your life in a Soyuz rather than an American made orbiter? I wouldn't.
Not sure why you had to attack the Mee.nu website, but it's free, not cheap, but free. And I don't have a problem getting into it except on rare occasions Bill, so maybe it's YOUR technology that is lacking?
At any rate, I didn't know the station keeping thrusters were Russian made. I am not surprised though.
We should never have partnered up with them. We should have pursued our own space program without this international partnering up with anybody.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 27, 2022 08:19 AM (5WVtk)
Again, is say good riddance to them. We can and should build our own station. The Chinese did. And we should build one with more usefulness, and perhaps rotate it for gravity. The ISS isn't even in a good position to launch spacecraft to the Moon. It was a big boondoggle.
I would add Skylab was kept in it's orbit by blasts from the Apollo. While Skylab was much smaller than the ISS, there is every reason to believe we could take the shuttle out of mothballs and use it in the same way.
I would also suspect we always had a plan for a backup just in case something like this happened.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 27, 2022 08:36 AM (5WVtk)
Oh, and I have a modern computer. The problem might be Windows 10, which is the devil's operating system.
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