"One soldier bears a bear, and a nest of bears" is vividly expressed in Russia, Putin has a stoic personality, a tough wrist, and several senior officials under him are not soft eggs.
Just as Russian troops swept through Ukraine and the United States led a group of little brothers to stumble again, Dmitry Rogozin, director of the Russian Federal Space Agency, made surprising remarks on Twitter, sparking heated discussion just hours later.
Rogozin wrote on Twitter: If the United States imposes sanctions on Russia for the sake of Ukraine, it may affect normal cooperation on the International Space Station, and it is not certain that one day it will suddenly fall, fall into the United States, or in Europe, and this United States can choose for itself.
Rogozin further explained that the location and orbit of the International Space Station are controlled by Russian engines, and Russia has paid a huge price for the construction of the space station, but the return is pitiful, and this account should have been calculated long ago!
Realistically speaking, Rogozin did not lie, since the construction and operation of the International Space Station, the United States has almost monopolized the International Space Station, pressing other member states, including Russia, to the ground and rubbing, the most depressed of which is Russia.
The International Space Station has invested a total of $155 billion so far, the United States has invested $131.1 billion, Russia ranks second in line with 12 billion, and the third and fourth places are the European Union and Japan, all of which have invested $5 billion. Russian experts have said that in addition to a few more Russian astronauts in the space station, all kinds of important research equipment have been occupied by the United States!
There are 31 test cabinets on the International Space Station, but all of them are controlled by the United States, and Russia only has dry eyes! In this way, the United States was still not satisfied, and extended its hand to the cabinets in the experimental modules of the European "Columbus" and the Japanese "Hope", half of which were tricked by the United States into taking it in.
In addition, the United States and Russia are fighting in the operation and management of the National Space Station, and each pregnant with a ghost fetus.
In 2003, the US space shuttle Columbia exploded over Texas, killing 7 astronauts, NASA decided to completely stop the space shuttle, and the task of transporting astronauts to the space station fell on Russia.com.
Well, Russia did not hesitate to immediately raise a single round-trip "ferry ticket" from $25 million to $30 million, to $50 million, and the highest simply rose to $90 million.
In just a few years, the United States has bought a total of 72 ferry tickets, spent $4 billion, and was scolded by the American people for being a dog blood sprinkler and forced to develop its own rocket. In 2020, the Self-developed Falcon 9 rocket in the United States successfully sent 2 astronauts to the International Space Station at a cost of only half of Russia's offer.
In 2018, the contradictions between the United States and Russia on the space station reached their peak. In August of that year, Russian astronauts found a 5 mm hole in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, and the strange thing was that the small hole had traces of drill polishing! In desperation, the astronauts sealed the opening with Kapton glue made of imide film material.
Russia suspected that it was the AMERICAN astronaut Selena who did it, because Selina and a male astronaut in the United States engaged in "extramarital affairs" on the space station, and the two quarreled over trivial matters one day, and Serena was depressed for several days, and even her body was unwell. Selena took the opportunity to apply for an early return to Earth, but was rejected by the ground.
Selena wants to return to Earth as soon as possible, unless there is an accident, the best way is to damage the Russian cabin and then take the Russian spacecraft. The United States said the allegation was a complete slur, believing that russian workers were not skilled and careless. Because there was no conclusive evidence, it was finally not resolved.
In addition to the above few, Russia and the United States also have "toilet doors", "odor doors" and "meal doors" on the space station. Every time they cooperate, the astronauts will gather together to show closeness, take pictures and immediately return to their own cabins, and they will not interact with each other!
The contradiction between Russia and the United States is on the one hand, and the International Space Station has been scarred for several years.
The International Space Station has been built from 1998 to 2010, more than a decade has passed, and the design life is only 10-15 years, so the issue of decommissioning was discussed in 2020, but it has been repeatedly postponed by the United States. The latest announced decommissioning date was January 2031, when it crashed in the Pacific Ocean.
If the United States pushes Russia into a hurry on the Ukraine issue, Russia really gives up, and the space station may be retired early. Since relations between Russia and Ukraine deteriorated, NASA has frozen all cooperation with Russia on the International Space Station. In retaliation, Russia will no longer allow the export of rocket engines to the United States.
At present, due to the gravitational effect of the Earth, the International Space Station is falling at a speed of 1 mile per month, so it is necessary to start the engine every once in a while to increase the orbital altitude, and it is Russia that is responsible for fuel supply. The problem is that the engine is still controlled by Russia, can it be remedied?
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