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RUSSIA ON POTENTIAL "DANGERS" OF STS-114: "DON'T WORRY"
Russia continued to send up Soyuz capsules to put two-man Russian-U.S. crews on the ISS for six-month stints, and also regularly launched Progress cargo ships to supply the astronauts with food, fuel and water. Costs of these missions, which keep the station supplied in the shuttles’ absence, have eaten into a space budget that Russia says is a mere fraction of NASA’s.
“If the shuttle flight turns out to be successful, it will be possible to talk about normal construction work on the ISS again,” Konstantin Kredenko, spokesman of the Roskosmos space agency, said. “We regard this extremely positively,” Kredenko said after the shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
“For the past two years, we have only been able to support the station and occasionally carry out a few experiments there“.
”We are hoping now that things can improve from this year,“ he said.
Russia and the United States are the only two countries technically able to send ships to the station, but the burden will be spread more widely beginning next year when the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its first cargo craft, Reuters added.
For completing an unbiased view on the latest Shuttle-Mission here are some articles - connected - from Moscow with love...
NASA was overreacting when they cancelled the Discovery shuttle launch, Itar Tass reported Thursday quoting the head of the Roskosmos state space agency, Anatoly Perminov. The defect was not serious enough to cancel the flight, he said.
“Failure of one of the four fuel tank’s gauges is not a defect that should make people panic,” Perminov told journalists.
“In my opinion, the launch could be well performed with the defect.”
Perminov also said he was sure NASA would resume flights this year. “I am sure the shuttle will fly, because enormous funds have been spent already,” he said...
Considering the "Hidden Humor" which Russians are famous for - some may call it even "ironical" - I hear that Perminov, sensing somehow NASA's "exeggerated caution"(or their waiting for a "secure GO" from "above"), couldn't hold back making these "comments" about "evth's OK, don't be afraid, we wouldn't do anything..."
I almost heard his laughs inside.
Along with this there are the latest comments of ISS-commander Wladimir Solovjov, commenting on the split ice from the boosters of the Shuttle: "The forming of ice happens all the time during take-offs of American Space-Shuttles. Only since the Columbia-disaster the NASA does regard this as a potential danger. Nothing to worry, he sees no danger for the Discovery..."
A millionaire scientist has been confirmed as a member of a Russian Soyuz crew scheduled to blast off Oct. 1 and deliver supplies to the international space station, AP reported Wednesday.
Space Adventures, the company that arranged the $20 million deal with Russia’s space agency, announced Wednesday that Gregory Olsen was officially part of the crew, which also includes a U.S. astronaut.
Olsen, a 60-year-old scientist and co-founder of infrared camera maker Sensors Unlimited Inc., of Princeton, would become the third paying passenger to visit the space station.
His trip, originally scheduled for April, was put on hold last summer after doctors in Russia found an undisclosed health problem during a physical exam.
That ailment was never revealed, but in May the Russian space program gave Olsen medical clearance and he resumed training. In its announcement Wednesday, Space Adventures said the health problem has been remedied.
Olsen, who holds advanced degrees in physics and materials science, has said he plans to bring along several of his company’s cameras to do science experiments, AP added.
What "science experiments" can you do with those "several cameras"? Making pictures (again)? Infrared (again)? Same as the Columbia did?
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