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hipmanDec 30, 2010
Most likely scapegoats.
arschgaudiDec 30, 2010
Sometimes leadership fails. If only we here in the United States took the same approach, we'd have had a lot more senior managers and CEO standing in the unemployment line instead of collecting exorbinant salaries and cashing out stock options.
hipmanDec 30, 2010
Not sure I understand...you're saying these 2 were "leaders" and "failed"?.
arschgaudiDec 30, 2010
"deputy head of the Russian space agency, Viktor Remishevsky, and the deputy chief of the state-controlled RKK Energiya rocket manufacturer, Vyacheslav Filin,"
Apparently so.
"the Proton-M booster rocket failed to put three GLONASS-M satellites into a designated orbit.the Proton-M booster rocket failed to put three GLONASS-M satellites into a designated orbit."
And yes
hipmanDec 30, 2010
Guess so, but given the rest of Russia's "leadership", this is hardly a general principle.
agmlauncherDec 30, 2010
Well Russia, when you stop being a corrupt communist state run by ex soviet KGB agents (yes, you're still soviet communist, don't fly that red white and blue flag and pretend otherwise), and you can afford to make your space technology out of anything other than compressed rust, maybe you can be successful in space again.
But hey, just keep firing people that have nothing to do with the failures of your under-funded, broke-ass space program :)
msbpodcastDec 30, 2010
Hahahaha... "successful in space again"? Hahahaha...
They're going to be selling US space on their launches.
You need to get your facts straight.
NASA is out of business and it only takes one vote in the cost-cutting senate or the cost-cutting house to ground us permanently.
breadfredDec 30, 2010
Russia runs their agency on very old technology. The States are encouraging private enterprise to go into space at a much better price per kilogram - and it looks like they are succeeding.
arschgaudiDec 30, 2010
Old technology that apparently still gets the job done.
breadfredDec 30, 2010
Yes, it still does. But Russia will still be sitting in the back seat unless they start investing in new technology.
arschgaudiDec 30, 2010
As opposed to the US which is retiring it's shuttles and will have no manned launch capabilities for the foreseeable future?
Soyus has been going into space since the mid 60s. To resupply the ISS, something the US has become incpable of doing, they fly up Progress ships, basically modified Soyus platforms. Think where we might be if we just improved on the Saturn / Apollo platform.
breadfredDec 30, 2010
Nothing state funded - private enterprise is taking over at a fraction of the cost. We will have to wait and see how reliable this will turn out to be; but I have good hopes.
jasoncoxDec 30, 2010
Wow, you know positively jack s**t about the Russian Federation, don't you?
babywookieDec 31, 2010
You are one ignorant f**king jackass! You can make a case for Russia being a lot of (bad) things, but it's a vastly different beast from the USSR. Moscow is a mecca of capitalistic decadence, for f**ks sake! They turned the place into the second Los Vegas!
arschgaudiDec 30, 2010
In Soviet Russia, rocket fires you.
noelpickettDec 30, 2010
As well they should have been....how much did this debacle cost...in wounded pride ? oh, nevermind...what was i thinking...
noelpickettDec 30, 2010
As well they should have been....how much did this debacle cost...in wounded pride ? oh, nevermind...what was i thinking...
msbpodcastDec 30, 2010
Yeah!!! Fire the bums who f**ked up.
We shouldn't have to rely of the friggin' ex-Soviets to know what to do about screw ups.
We need to fire a lot of dead-(head)-wood in this country too.
We tend to elect our dead-heads and can't get rid of them for four years.
breadfredDec 30, 2010
the ones you elect for 4 years are not your problem. The ones that sit in their position for over 15 years are where your problem is. Too many cosy jobs without responsibilities.
wardcosbysonJan 7, 2011
that is crazy