Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024, then it will leave (and take their modules with them)

[Victorious Secret]

 

 

Looks like Russia, under all the sanctions they've had placed on them lately plus with the general "Russia, we're tired of your shit" attitude the world seems to have, will leave the ISS after 2024 and take their balls home with them. I meant modules. Or balls. Depends on where Russia gets their manhood from...

 

Russia wants to start up their own station and by 2030 run their own lunar projects as well, this could signal the start of yet another space race because I doubt the USA is going to sit by while Russia goes and does awesome space stuff on their own. Or they will, who knows. With the issues at home, it seems awfully hard to convince the public that the Government should blow billions on space ventures when they can't even keep domestic affairs in order. 

 

 

 

Russia plans to stay part of the International Space Station partnership until 2024, then undock its modules to create a standalone base in orbit, the Russian space agency announced Tuesday.

 

A statement posted to the Russian space agency’s website said a meeting of the Roscosmos science and technical council considered Russia’s future human spaceflight plans, favoring the continued use of the International Space Station until 2024.

 

Then Russia plans to remove its modules from the International Space Station to form an all-Russian complex in orbit. The statement said “a configuration of a multi-purpose laboratory module, a (docking) node module, and a scientific power module creates a promising Russian space station to meet the challenges of providing secure access to space (for Russia).”

 

The laboratory module, docking system and scientific power platform Russia intends to use for its follow-on space station are set for launch to the ISS over the next few years after lengthy delays due to funding woes and technical problems. The statement did not discuss the fate of the oldest Russian components of the International Space Station — the Zvezda service module, the Zarya storage compartment, and smaller docking ports. Most of the older Russian modules will have spent more than 20 years in orbit by 2024, well beyond their original design lifetimes.

 

http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/02/24/russian-space-agency-endorses-iss-until-2024/

[Jerakl]

Space race? Did someone say Space race?

 

SPACE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

[IP man]

Wow that thing looks awsome!

 

Love Space related stuff 

 

Love Russia <3

[Trik'Stari]

Considering the general idiocy of most people concerning space exploration, and our own government's complete and total idiocy on everything:

 

Russia has already won this new "space race"

[Jerakl]

Considering the general idiocy of most people concerning space exploration, and our own government's complete and total idiocy on everything:

 

Russia has already won this new "space race"

[Real_PhillBert]

I thought a lot of the modules on the ISS were Russian made?

 

I was under the impression that the Russians were making most of the modules and the US was the ones doing most of the shipping up to the ISS.

[TooManyErrors]

Space races are definitely good for technological progression and indirectly solving world problems.

[multifrag]

With appearance of communism party in russia I think we will see CCCP v2 and maybe an another space race. The outcome will only be negative to Russia itself so it really does not matter. They do their business and the rest of the world can work together.

[Profquast]

Wasn't the ISS meant to be EOL around 2020 and then burned in the atmosphere?

[Victorious Secret]

Wasn't the ISS meant to be EOL around 2020 and then burned in the atmosphere?

 

Commercial ships can raise the ISS up but only Russia has the only vehicle with the proper power to de-orbit the ISS completely, unless NASA gets funding for something else. 

[Toddwjp]

the iss represents that the smartest minds of all country's can work together to achieve something amazing,

 

now how come governments cant work together, think that says something. it my sound bad but i really wish more governments would defer decisions to scientific like consensus that uses evidence and has to create a detailed argument to be accepted.

[Fred Castellum]

Another space race you say? Hell yeah being it on I want to see this happen.

[deviant88]

So many homeless/poor people in 'merica and you want them to invest in a fucking space race,i love space,but fix the fucking basic society problems and then make useless goals like the moon.

[ionbasa]

Space Race v2?

Can't wait. If this does happen, maybe we'll see new tech come out of it in the near future.

[rashdanml]

This can actually spell certain doom for anything space related. If countries can't collaborate on a global scale to go up into space, individual efforts can only go so far. Right now, the US relies on Russia for going to the ISS, but if either country is serious about going further (read: Mars), it would have to be a collaborative effort.

 

Too bad that will never happen. 

 

Space travel and colonization is a completely different game compared to landing on the moon (the first Space Race). Landing on the moon is like a trip to a grocery store. Going to Mars is like trying to swim across the pacific ocean. 

[Admiral Naismith]

-snip-

How about we cut our over-spending in our defense budget? WAY to many tax-payer dollars are spent on the military-industrial complex.

 

Space exploration is critical to our scientific progression, which is critical if we want to remain a 'superpower'.

Think of it this way, during Wars, there is always some sort of leap in science and technology because of extra spending on R&D. A properly funded space program is similar to this, except everything is (well, should be) done responsibly with a minimal risk to human lives.

 

Hopefully I made my point clear enough, I only had a few minutes.