NASA Has Soft Power Conversations With Sanctioned Head Of Roscosmos
New Head Of Roscosmos Is Under Formal U.S. Sanction, earlier post
Issuance of a new Ukraine-related Executive Order; Ukraine-related Designations, U.S. Department of the Treasury: “ROGOZIN, Dmitry Olegovich (a.k.a. ROGOZIN, Dmitriy; a.k.a. ROGOZIN, Dmitry); DOB 21 Dec 1963; POB Moscow, Russia; Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (individual) [UKRAINE2].”
Executive Order 13660–Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine, Federal Registry 10 March 2014: “I hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens determined to meet one or more of the criteria in subsection 1(a) of this order would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of such persons.”
@DRogozin 29 April 2014: “After analysing the sanctions against our space industry I suggest the US delivers its astronauts to the ISS with a trampoline“
Q- have you had any interactions with the new head of Roscosmos? Future of US-Russian coop?
Bridenstine: haven’t had any interactions w/him myself but NASA folks in Russia have and it’s gone well. Space great soft power tool. Can enable conversations can’t have otherwise.— Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) June 12, 2018
Connections with Russia through common goals on space has always been a good thing.
May it continue. It sets a good precedent for the world. As we expand our reach out to the planets, may those efforts always be largely irrelevant to our disagreements on the ground.
I could not agree more. Naturally, there are reasonable precautions; but in the end, cooperation with Russia, China, and others is a terrifically great thing.
I never fully understood the argument against cooperating. But There are others here with genuine objections and I hope they will post them.
I agree that cooperation among people with common goals for exploration and development is a great thing and, hopefully, leads to better understanding between nations with sometimes other individual national interests. OTOH, remarks about trampolines, etc., certainly make a case for the United States to get our capability to send our astronauts to the ISS and elsewhere back to where we can do it without having to depend on others…ASAP!
You point out an interesting assumption that I’ve made, which is that cooperation is best when all share the same goals.
Thinking a little more, I wondered if this a necessary thing? Consider ping-pong diplomacy, which turned out to be a necessary precursor to Mr. Nixon’s nascent China policy. Or consider Mr. Clinton’s efforts to employ nuclear scientists in the post-Soviet Union. In both instances – both marginally successful – the ‘goals’ were actually outside the purported activity (namely, ‘world peace’).