Comments on: Russian Aggression Carries High Cost for NASA

By: Not a Lib

Not a Lib — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:36:29 +0000

This is how Obama’s presidency will look like
http://www.ucubd.com/Index.aspx?id=714&cid=3128

By: Pissed

Pissed — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:47:29 +0000

Why should the US abandon anything? The russians have contributed almost nothing to the ISS. I do think that NASA needs to be reorganized and demonopolized so private companies can add to what we already have and get what we need alot sooner. Russia has already threatened nuclear weapon use last week. I say take the ISS and tell russia to go to hell, we don’t want or need them in space until they can act like civilized people. They want to threaten nukes? There are alot of nukes in the world. Like the man said earlier, russia is mexico with nukes. I say lets take their toys away and put them back in their place.

By: Gor

Gor — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:47:33 +0000

I totally agree with colleen – that was pretty funny to read such a nonsense – in Russia, being “Russian” is not about being of ancient Slavic roots and boast blue eyes and blonde hair, it’s about hailing from Russian Federation – whatever hair/skin color you got, people just consider themselves being Russian regardless of their actual (often very vague) roots. So, Volkov and Kononenko do think about themselves as being Russians, regardless of what nationality might be spotted in their passports…

And what do you think about ongoing voting at http://www.StopRussianAggression.com ?

By: The Daily Links - August 20th, Part 2 « The Four Part Land

The Daily Links - August 20th, Part 2 « The Four Part Land — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:48:47 +0000

[...] Pajamas Media » Russian Aggression Carries High Cost for NASA [...]

By: colleen

colleen — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:29:34 +0000

This is the most misinformed paragraph that I’ve read in a while:

Interestingly, while all three of the current station crew on Expedition 17 have Russian(ish) names, and two of them are employed by the Russian space agency, none of them are necessarily Russian. The station commander, Sergei Volkov, is a Ukrainian, and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko is from Turkmenistan. Greg Chamitoff, NASA’s representative, was born in Canada. Neither of the two former Soviet Republics (and presumably, their citizens) are likely to view the Russian actions with favor, given that they could be next.

Simberg and most of the brainwashed people here have no idea what they’re talking about…

By: davod

davod — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:25:14 +0000

Keep NASA, gut the administrators and get some engineers who can keep the spaceshuttle going and develop rockets for moving cargo.

By: SamP

SamP — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:33:29 +0000

As far as the ISS is concerned, it is a very valuable structure and not a “white elephant”. Eventually it could be expanded and used as a staging and assembly area for future trans-lunar and trans-martian manned or unmanned spacecraft -ones that will always remain in space.

By: SamP

SamP — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:27:14 +0000

The Russians will probably cooperate with the launch capability but why take the chance? The decision to shut down the Shuttle before the new launch vehicle is ready is just plain dumb. In light of current events, the decision needs to be reversed asap.

By: Nedarc

Nedarc — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:57:44 +0000

Aain we are in a bind, whenever America refuses to use Her own resourses, be it petro natural resourses or our space technology and end up relying on other countries for our needs, we always get screwed !…When will we learn ?

By: Techie

Techie — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:13:54 +0000

cedarford,

You know why Russia didn’t “walk away” after all that?

Because, Russia is basically Mexico with nukes at this point. Their “space program” is perhaps their last bit of international pride.

Plus, “we” didn’t “roll” NATO onto their doorstep. Poland et al. asked for it, fearing exactly what Russia is doing to Georgia currently.