MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia s Soyuz rocket, carrying Earth remote sensing satellite Khayyam, created by Russian enterprises on the order of Iran, was launched. 09.08.2022, Sputnik International
mentioned are quite volatile. the head of koscosmos is known for his hyperbole on twitter and engaged in a twitter war with retired astronaut scott kelly, who spent more than a year in space a few years ago on the international space station. he called scott kelly a moron and it just kind of devolved from there. what led to that whole exchange was sort of a spoof video, which implied that the russian cosmonauts would seal the hatch, disattach their section of the international space station, and leave the current u.s. astronaut up there who s expecting to ride on the soyuz rocket, mark v van vandehei, alone in space. that upset mark kelly. let s back up, though. we re talking about 30 years of excellent cooperation at the engineering cosmonaut and astronaut level. an extraordinary turn of events when you consider the cold war origins of the space program. and now to see this all unwind
area where we do have a significant amount of cooperation, ourselves, the russians can if others who have been on the international space station. but i m wondering whether those days could be numbered. the chinese, it seems, are going their own way, just their way with no one else, and i m wondering what the future of this looks like. well, the future of the russian space program, i think, really bleak, and it s thanks to vladimir putin. you know, this illegal and horrendous war that he s waging in ukraine has made the entire world pull out of cooperating with russia. europe has some really important missions, a mars probe and some satellites they were going to launch on the russian soyuz, and they pulled out. there just aren t going to be customers for the russian soyuz rocket anymore, they re all going to spacex and the u.s. or there s going to be a future european rocket. so this adventure in ukraine has crushed the program which is said because sad because for