Russians have ever more financial backing than anyone else and their ship fails, interesting.

Money will never prevent someone going cross eyed on the assembly line ...

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Russians have ever more financial backing than anyone else and their ship fails, interesting.

Money will never prevent someone going cross eyed on the assembly line ...

Russians have closest competitive talent resource with America. And because of financial drop their productivity has fallen to the lowest point but now in the last 5 years their budget constantly increased versus NASA's constantly fallen. So this kind of failure event is really unusual. Not to mention they have at least two separate satellite launch failures this year alone.

I mean likely they are effectively working on their MIR-2 right at this moment. Which can be proved by their aggressive statement of dumping ISS as soon as possible just recently.

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Mandtugai!

I've read on the CERN site that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the ISS is beaming its data to a satellite in high orbit, which beams it to the Edwards Air Force base in California. From this the data go to the Marshall NASA center in Alabama and from there to Geneva where they will be processed after the calibration phase is ended. Prof. Samuel Ting of MIT, head of the AMS staff, does not want to publish any result on dark matter or dark energy unless it is absolutely sound and solid. We do not want to publish first, he says, we want to publish last.
Tullio

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I mean likely they are effectively working on their MIR-2 right at this moment. Which can be proved by their aggressive statement of dumping ISS as soon as possible just recently.

Have you got a link for that?

Tovarisch Chris mne kajetsya shto etih linkii dovalinie podskazanie o novaya rossiiskaya kosmicheskaya stantsiya: ;)

http://infuture.ru/article/1639 <--- even clear statement.

http://ria.ru/analytics/20090202/160755136.html

http://rus.ruvr.ru/2011/08/20/54938952.html

This year chinese are almost launching their Mir mockup, in the last 2-3 years russians actively spending tens of billions of dollars to modernize their armament. Then why not spend few billion dollars to launch their own new space station?!

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Mandtugai!

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Finfuture.ru%2Farticle%2F1639

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fria.ru%2Fanalytics%2F20090202%2F160755136.html

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Frus.ruvr.ru%2F2011%2F08%2F20%2F54938952.html

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So you get the idea. In cosmos department russians and americans always be in the race for their reputation sake.

The day they brought down Mir some russian tv showed that some russian institute was already working on new space station blue prints.

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Mandtugai!