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Russia

Selective Amnesia

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
October 21, 2008

Russia set to invest heavily in space industry, Reuters

“It is obvious that this status of a reliable international partner should be constantly upheld,” Putin told the special meeting in Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia. U.S. space agency NASA plans to mothball its entire Space Shuttle fleet by 2011. “Evidently … between 2011 and 2016 the United States will not possess a new spaceship to replace the Space Shuttle,” news agencies quoted Anatoly Perminov, the head of Russia’s space agency Roskosmos, as telling Putin. “So Russian spacecraft will bear the brunt of transportation and maintenance works, as well as replacing (ISS) crews and launching European and Japanese cargo ships from time to time.”

Editor’s note: Gee, and when their space program was collapsing in the 1990s who propped it up, wrote big checks, etc.? Thanks a whole heap, tovarich.

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