Dmitry Rogozin Is Spitting Mad At The U.S. Space Trampoline
Commerce Department Will Publish the First Military End User List Naming More Than 100 Chinese and Russian Companies
“The MEU List informs exporters, reexporters, and transferors that a license will be required to export, reexport, or transfer (in-country) designated items to listed entities. The U.S. Government has determined that these entities represent an unacceptable risk of use in or diversion to a ‘military end use’ or ‘military end user’ in China, Russia, or Venezuela.”
Dmitry Rogozin comments on trade restrictions against Russian companies, Roscosmos
“Now, it turns out that our American colleagues have their ‘trampoline working’ again, and the first thing they did is spit into the Samara well. Isn’t it too early, colleagues, in case your ‘trampoline’ breaks again suddenly and you will have to satisfy your passion for space from our well again?”
– Rogozin: Russia Is Not Interested In Working With NASA on Artemis (Or Maybe They Are), earlier post
– Bellicose Roscosmos Thinks Trump Is Hysterical Over Dragon, earlier post
– other posts on Russia
No Dimitri, we don’t need your ‘well’. The worst we would have to do is give Boeing a prod in the tucas.
Elon Musk has a rent-free Russian apartment…right in Dimitri’s noggin.
Dimitri, just think how different things may have been if you guys would have sold Mr. Musk those ICBM’s at a reasonable price back in 2001.
They wouldn’t be facing the prospect of a US space fleet made up not only of Dragon XL, Cargo Dragon 2, Crew Dragon & Starliner (eventually) but crew/cargo Dream Chaser and (gulp!) several flavors of Starship.
This sounds like the last howls of a dying bear.
Thank God he got too greedy then.
He had nothing to do with it, as he was just a member of parliament at the time.
This presumes a level of coordination, control, and intent that I don’t think applies to that case.
Russia is going to try and beat Tom Cruise into space:
A New Space Race Begins: Russia Aims to Beat Tom Cruise by Sending an Actor to Space in 2021
https://www.yahoo.com/enter…
Bwahahahahah!
They probably will find someone that is highly qualified but she will have to spend the rest of her life like Tereshkova knowing she was only selected just to upstage the US.
That’ll teach ’em.
What if our “trampoline” breaks again? Well good thing Starliner is on the way next year. And if not that there is Orion. And if we go out a few more years, Starship and Dream Chaser.
Russia’s flagrant fleecing of its main customer saw the US build not one, not two but three new trampolines, every one of which has capabilites that dwarf that of the Soyuz, which has barely changed in 50 years. And the rockets that two of them fly on – the Falcon 9 and SLS – can do things that no Russian rocket can.
I really hope the chuckles with his trampoline line he got in 2014 were worth it. Because in 2020, he’s perhaps the biggest space-fool on the planet. Frankly, few people have been more wrong about anything space related in modern times than Dmitry Rogozin, whose
I wonder how much further Russia would be in their space program if Putin and his cronies willing to spend money on it instead of mansions for themselves. Incidently mentioned the same thing in another forum (non-space), got down voted along with comments, “how dare you say how other countries should conduct their affairs!”
The problem is not that they don’t spend money, it is rather than the money is drained away after being allocated, through various types of corruption and mismanagement.
Not to be a party pooper here, but he does have a point. The international cooperation we have with Russia around ISS is vital to both US interests and world peace these days. I have no love lost for the current regime there, but thwaping them the minute we have one viable launch system seems like a really bad idea. Perhaps we could find a more elegant and less publicly embarrassing way to make our point about technology with military applications? Our fancy launch system isn’t much use if they pull their ISS core module and go home.