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Topic: US refuses Russian lunar cooperation
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 50516 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-29-2007 03:48 PM
From Agency Presse France: quote: The head of Russia's space agency Sunday said the US has rebuffed an offer from Moscow to jointly explore the moon, while announcing a separate contract with NASA for nearly one billion dollars for the International Space Station.Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency that Russia had proposed pooling resources to explore the moon. "We were ready to cooperate but for unknown reasons, the United States have said they will undertake this programme themselves," he said.
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 50516 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-02-2007 12:02 AM
From New Scientist: quote: On Sunday, the Interfax news agency reported that Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, said that Russia had proposed pooling resources to explore the moon. "We were ready to cooperate, but for unknown reasons, the United States have said they will undertake this programme themselves," he said.But NASA spokesperson Michael Braukus, speaking from the agency's headquarters in Washington, DC, said that NASA has not received such an offer from Russia. "Nothing was offered and nothing was declined," he told New Scientist. "We have not received a moon cooperation offer from Roskomos."
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cspg Member Posts: 6347 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 05-02-2007 10:00 AM
Curious story. Even if the proposal had been accepted by NASA, wouldn't the State Department, the DoD and the President be consulted first? Going back to the Moon doesn't seem to fit, because of the issues involved- technological, financial (military?)-, into a inter space agencies kind of deal.Or maybe it's a cry for help by the Russians. There are weird things going on over there and you have to wonder which alliances you'd like to form today for tomorrow's sake... Chris. | |
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