http://www.ustvmedia.org/the-american-revolution-is-it-over/2007/02/11/the-collapse-gap-the-ussr-vs-the-usa/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:36:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.ustvmedia.org/the-american-revolution-is-it-over/2007/02/11/the-collapse-gap-the-ussr-vs-the-usa/#comment-11675 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:24:56 +0000 http://www.ustvmedia.org/the-american-revolution-is-it-over/2007/02/11/the-collapse-gap-the-ussr-vs-the-usa/#comment-11675 Get a load of the sour-grapes Russian guy ("we collapsed first and better than you will, nah nah nah") suggesting that Russia won the space race because their capsules were flying tourists to the space station while our shuttles were grounded. Give me a break! We donated over a billion dollars to keep their Mir program alive in the 1990s and to keep their rocket scientists peacefully employed. If they hadn't been the first to collapse, with another superpower left to send them financial aid, their space program would have been caputnik. Even with our help, they were still renting part of their mission control building to a lamp shop. As for that new space station that they are so proudly (desperately, more like) running the world's only "space charter" to, it's maybe about 80% funded by the USA. Russia built the core module (barely, with a clunky ventilation system) thanks to a $20 million loan from the US. Another module they are still supposed to build, but haven't started yet, is listed as "under review". The Russian Space Agency launches commercial satellites for profit and send supplies to the space station. Big deal. Who's got two little buggies driving around on Mars? Get a load of the sour-grapes Russian guy (”we collapsed first and better than you will, nah nah nah”) suggesting that Russia won the space race because their capsules were flying tourists to the space station while our shuttles were grounded. Give me a break! We donated over a billion dollars to keep their Mir program alive in the 1990s and to keep their rocket scientists peacefully employed. If they hadn’t been the first to collapse, with another superpower left to send them financial aid, their space program would have been caputnik. Even with our help, they were still renting part of their mission control building to a lamp shop. As for that new space station that they are so proudly (desperately, more like) running the world’s only “space charter” to, it’s maybe about 80% funded by the USA. Russia built the core module (barely, with a clunky ventilation system) thanks to a $20 million loan from the US. Another module they are still supposed to build, but haven’t started yet, is listed as “under review”. The Russian Space Agency launches commercial satellites for profit and send supplies to the space station. Big deal. Who’s got two little buggies driving around on Mars?

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