Russia Bans U.S. From International Space Station: America Strikes Back

[FishermanTim]

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

No, it's an International Space Station. But if Russia gets its way, it's going to be off-limits to the United States soon.

For weeks now, there have been rumblings about Russia wanting to ban the United States from using the ISS while the two countries wrangled over Ukraine. While that would probably violate international law, it may be feasible from a practical perspective. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin argued that "the Russian segment [of the ISS] can exist independently from the American one. The U.S. one cannot."

An even more immediate problem facing America is Russia's threat to cut off access to the RD-180 rocket engines that the United Launch Alliance (the joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin uses in its Atlas V rockets. These are the big beasts that carry U.S. military satellites into space. They're critical to national security. But we've only got enough RD-180s stockpiled to keep ULA supplied for about another 22 months."


Right, and if we left it to the Russians, would it end up crashing back to Earth like the MIR space station???
(Yeah, I know that Skylab did too, but that's a different story.)

[spence]

The US based space industry is going to blow the Russians out of the water in the next few years…not to worry.

-spence

[Raven]

it's a sham anyway... no big deal

all deception .... disinformation, campaign city

we have vehicles.... capable of interplanetary travel "NOW"

the black subterranean pyramid in Alaska has yielded
some technologies that deliver unlimited power x 1,000,000,000 times

[Fly Rod]

I hope they do cut us off....bring back the space program around Cocoa Beach, thousands were laid off and we pay the russians millions to launch us into space...Rediculous

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Fly Rod

I hope they do cut us off....bring back the space program around Cocoa Beach, thousands were laid off and we pay the russians millions to launch us into space...Ridiculous

[iamskippy]

Isnt Russia 1 of 2 countries that never signed the treaty after WW2?
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[Raven]

they have DIPLOMATIC Immunity
azz holes with opportunity

[Raven]