Comment Re:In related news... (Score 1) 636
Because the guy is wrong, or, more precisely, misleading. Where in his list is the Pirs module, funded, built and launched by Russia? And where is the experience for long-serving space laboratories, which only Russia had prior to ISS (Skylab has just three rather short, by today standards, missions)? Mind you, it is because that experience Russia spends around 2% of the cost of ISS, but has the rights to about 30% of that.
The current state of ISS is that of 6 modules - Zarya, Node 1, Zvezda, Destiny, Quest and Pirs - the half is built in Russia, and two f those three are funded by Russia. No, it's definitely not the american station.
The current state of ISS is that of 6 modules - Zarya, Node 1, Zvezda, Destiny, Quest and Pirs - the half is built in Russia, and two f those three are funded by Russia. No, it's definitely not the american station.
