[FPSPACE] Euro-Russian capsule: The silence is....like a vacuum

[agzak at optonline.net]

Absolutely agree, it seems that Europeans were just looking for an excuse to get out of awkward alliance with Russians, especially in current political climate. Hopefully, they preserve their own manned ATV-based effort, at least.

My summary of the events:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com

Anatoly Zak



----- Original Message -----
From: David M Harland <dave.harland at ntlworld.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:36 pm
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Euro-Russian capsule: The silence is....like a vacuum
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org

> At 4:16 pm -0400 15/10/08, E.P. Grondine wrote:
> >My general conclusion ... was that manned space development was 
> too 
> >expensive for any one nation to undertake by itself acting alone.
> 
> It is not primarily a matter of cost, but of will. If a nation had 
> the will to do so, the money would readily be found. You'll note 
> that 
> the prospect of spending  a trillion dollars spread out over a 25 
> year period to mount mount a manned mission to Mars was judged to 
> be 
> ridiculously expensive, yet the US government has pulled almost 
> that 
> amount of money out of the hat virtually overnight simply to buy 
> some 
> duff assets and a minority share in a couple of banks. It puts 
> going 
> to Mars into a new light.
> 
> dmh
> 
> 
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