[FPSPACE] Anatoly Perminov says US rebuffed Russian overtures to joint ex...

[agzak at optonline.net]

David:

If I am not mistaken, Boeing/McDonell Douglas contract change does not coincide with the 
inviation to Russia, but it did take place around 1994-1995, as a result of restructuring inside 
the US, so you might argue it was in the wake of the merger. 

Still, Russia continued to proliferate, but the station lived. There were other much more 
powerful mechanisms, which kept it going for all these years. 

Anatoly Zak
RussianSpaceWeb.com





----- Original Message -----
From: DSFPortree at aol.com
Date: Monday, April 30, 2007 4:27 pm
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Anatoly Perminov says US rebuffed Russian overtures to joint ex...
To: agzak at optonline.net, fpspace at friends-partners.org

> Anatoly:
> 
> I've already rested my case. ;-)
> 
> OK, maybe my memory is faulty here - didn't the Work Package 
> contractor 
> system go away because of the transition from Freedom to ISS? 
> McDonnell Douglas had 
> the Freedom contract in Houston (WP-1, if memory serves), and they 
> basically 
> went out of business at that point. 
> 
> That's what I was thinking of when I said contractor changes. I may 
> well have 
> it muddled, though. This stuff was going on soon after I arrived in 
> Houston, 
> and that's been a while.
> 
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