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inanna

(3,547 posts) Mon Dec 15, 2014, 11:24 AM Dec 2014

Russia considers building its own space station to rival ISS: report

Source: Reuters

Russian state space agency Roscosmos is considering building its own space station, RIA news agency quoted its chief as saying on Monday, underlining how international tensions are affecting space co-operation.

Such a project would rival the International Space Station, an orbiting laboratory that involves 15 nations including Russia and the United States. Moscow has cast doubt on the ISS’s long-term future as ties with Washington plummet over Ukraine.

“I confirm we are considering such an option. This is a possible direction of development,” RIA quoted Roscosmos head Oleg Ostapenko as saying when asked about whether Russia has plans to develop it own space station.

He said such a space station could become a key part of Russian missions to the moon.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/russia-considers-building-its-own-space-station-to-rival-iss-report/article22082444/?cmpid=rss1

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Russia considers building its own space station to rival ISS: report (Original Post) inanna Dec 2014 OP

And that money will come from where? If Russia asks nicely, they can be China's junior-partner. DetlefK Dec 2014 #1

Same place as the Fed Reserve, right? Cosmic Kitten Dec 2014 #2

That might help, but investors are already fleeing Russia. DetlefK Dec 2014 #3

How UTTERLY Shocking! Hockey Dad Dec 2014 #4

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

1. And that money will come from where? If Russia asks nicely, they can be China's junior-partner.

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 11:26 AM

Dec 2014

Cosmic Kitten

(3,498 posts)

2. Same place as the Fed Reserve, right?

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 12:07 PM

Dec 2014

Run the printing presses!
Fiat currency for all!

Or maybe the BRICS?

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

3. That might help, but investors are already fleeing Russia.

Reply to Cosmic Kitten (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 12:23 PM

Dec 2014

Russia sells its oil in Dollars or Euros or Yuan, so inflation wouldn't matter for export.
But Russia imports a lot of technology from Europe, paid in Rubel, and it is unlikely that Europe would accept that currency-dumping without corrections on prices or exchange-rates.

Hockey Dad

(70 posts)

4. How UTTERLY Shocking!

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 12:25 PM

Dec 2014

Please pardon the above sarcasm. It's been clear since Mr Putin's first "election" in 2000 that he wishes to revive The Great Game, as the Brits of the 19th century called it. Of course, you (and we) refer to it as The Cold War, the second iteration of which has been underway, mostly at Russian instigation, for a full decade, now.

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