The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is not over, and the US sanctions against Russia are getting worse and worse. However, Russia is not easy to mess with, and has sanctioned NASA and announced a ban on the supply of Russian engines. And Russia has already spoken, due to Western sanctions, the space station may not be enough funds, then the space station fell down can not blame Russia. As a result, NASA suddenly instigated, and immediately said that it insisted on cooperating with Russia, and any sanctions would not involve the aviation field.
At present, NASA does not have the ability to build another space station, and now sending an astronaut has to use a Russian spacecraft, in case the space station really falls, it will be finished. European countries can still borrow China's space station, but the United States is really difficult. At present, the Chinese space station has rejected the application of the United States to use the Chinese space station for experiments. The Americans eventually suffered the consequences.
First, NASA used to be very strong
NASA actually has space technology, but that was 20 years ago. After the Soviet Union sent Gagarin into space, the United States also actively developed manned space technology. Beginning in 1958, the United States also engaged in the Mercury Program and the Gemini Program. On July 21, 1969, the United States sent humans to the moon for the first time, which was the Apollo program.
But after ten years, the United States suddenly found a very embarrassing thing, that is, its space program is too expensive, when the United States launched a rocket for billions of dollars, as strong as the United States is also a bit unsupportable. So NASA immediately proposed a new plan to the US Congress, that is, the space shuttle program. NASA has described the project as crazy, how much the space shuttle will save the United States, and so on. In the end, the congressional masters finally approved the money, and the space shuttle program was launched.
In the years that followed, the United States built six space shuttles, namely Enterprise, Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Endeavour, and Discovery. The space shuttle program and many projects in the United States have a common problem, that is, the paper is very different from the actual situation.
We all know that this often happens when the United States is engaged in military projects. For example, the Ford aircraft carrier has been engaged for so long and is still a problem; the F22 is known as the strongest fighter on the earth, and the result is now that it has become a chicken rib due to incompatibility. NASA's space shuttle is the same problem. At that time, it was said that it could be recycled, but the US Congressman suddenly found that launching a space shuttle was not cheap at all.
NASA's development of these space shuttles is also a series of additional investments. The shuttle, like other programs, added $8.9 billion in research and development costs at a time. In the end, on average, the cost of a space shuttle reached $2 billion. The shuttles flew more than 100 times, and each flight cost $500 million, including launch and post-flight overhauls.
And that's not all. One fatal flaw in the shuttle is that it is unsafe. The shuttle is recyclable, and overhauls after returning to the ship are very important. You know, making a new product from the assembly line is much more time-saving and labor-saving than building a machine that doesn't know where it is broken. Two of the five space shuttles had an epistemological explosion accident, and American astronauts were trembling before they went to heaven.
With the passage of time, the aging of the space shuttle engine is obvious, and the hidden dangers in the airframe are also getting bigger and bigger. The Americans suddenly discovered that since the Soviet Union had collapsed, why did we build a space shuttle? In 2010, Obama announced that he would no longer study low-Earth orbiters, and the space shuttle would no longer be useful. After atlantis's last launch in 2011, the U.S. Space Shuttle officially came to an end.
Second, now the United States has to borrow someone else's space station
The space shuttle can not be used, but the astronauts still have to go to space, after all, the International Space Station still has to be used. Some people say that the Soviet Union was dragged down by the space program, and there is still debatable about it. Because when the United States spends hundreds of millions of dollars on the sky, Russia only needs $20 million at a time. Therefore, the United States begged Russia to help him go to heaven. After all, Russia and the United States do not deal with it, that must sit on the ground. Russia makes $40 million for every time an American astronaut goes to heaven.
Because the United States keeps printing money, the cost of heaven is also rising. By 2018, it would have cost $81 million to go to heaven. Of course, in addition to looking for Russia, the United States could have also found China. But considering what the United States did to China in the space sector, they also know what answers they will get.
Musk made another fortune
Of course, the Americans didn't focus on using Russian tickets. The United States is also very aware that the United States and Russia are inherently wronged, and who knows when the two countries will turn their faces. The United States is also engaged in the SLS project, but the project has not improved for many years, and the main problem is that the engine developed by the United States itself is too expensive. Delta, the Cosmic God, and the Titans none of them could fight. In the end, the United States could not do anything, and began to play the last trick of capitalism, that is, to rent a spaceship from other companies.
Since 2010, the United States has allowed Musk's Space X to build its own spacecraft, and in 2020, Space X completed the manned sky, which indeed proved that Musk can complete this task. But capitalists have no borders! After hearing that the Russian aircraft withdrew from the US market, Musk immediately sat on the ground, and the price rose to $900 million three times. What's more, Space X is definitely not as comfortable as the space shuttle, and it is currently unable to solve the toilet problem. This is the sanction, hurting the enemy a thousand and losing eight hundred, and in today's globalized world, every so-called sanction will not have an impact on the opponent alone.
Author/Lonely Cold Light
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