Pete
07-28-2011, 05:30
Russia Plans to Sink the International Space Station in 2020
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/27/russia-plans-to-sink-international-space-station-in-2020/#ixzz1TOlVGa2Q
"Russia's space agency announced Wednesday that the International Space Station -- a space base the world's scientists and billions of U.S. tax dollars helped build and maintain some 200 miles above the surface of the Earth -- will be de-orbited and allowed to sink into the Pacific Ocean in 2020, just like its Russian predecessor, Mir.
"We will be forced to sink the ISS. We cannot leave it in orbit as it is a very complicated and a heavy object," Roscosmos' deputy head Vitaly Davydov said in an interview posted on the agency's website......................"
Hmmmm, didn't our last shuttle just return to earth? Don't we now rely on the Russians to get supplies up there?
Something tells me this situation is going to cost us lots more money - and not just the cost of sending the stuff up.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/27/russia-plans-to-sink-international-space-station-in-2020/#ixzz1TOlVGa2Q
"Russia's space agency announced Wednesday that the International Space Station -- a space base the world's scientists and billions of U.S. tax dollars helped build and maintain some 200 miles above the surface of the Earth -- will be de-orbited and allowed to sink into the Pacific Ocean in 2020, just like its Russian predecessor, Mir.
"We will be forced to sink the ISS. We cannot leave it in orbit as it is a very complicated and a heavy object," Roscosmos' deputy head Vitaly Davydov said in an interview posted on the agency's website......................"
Hmmmm, didn't our last shuttle just return to earth? Don't we now rely on the Russians to get supplies up there?
Something tells me this situation is going to cost us lots more money - and not just the cost of sending the stuff up.