We will restore our reputation
as the main space driver.
The question is different.
The market for launching is only 4%
from the entire space services market.
So, roughly speaking, hustle with Elon Mask
in this market, and also with the Chinese
it is hustling for those 4%.
He(Musk) is a very talented engineer
and brilliant PR man
Sometimes his brilliant PR abilities
compromise his credibility as a good engineer.
Because sometimes he starts to kinda lie like a gas-meter.
For example, I carefully analyzed some of his
technical solutions with our specialists.
and I can’t say that we are ashamed,
but we will use some of this.
We really can't like Elon Musk does,
return our rocket.
Why? Because they launch from Canaveral(Rocket launch site)
and move the offshore platform to the point
where the first step should land vertically.
Where are we going to land ours? In Yakutia or what?
It's physically impossible!
Due to geographical features.
Firstly, we will definitely not negotiate
in order to impose ourselves on the Americans as partners.
Despite the sanctions, we decided to extend the work(contract) with the ISS until 2024.
Although there were such talks about stopping this work(contract) in 2020.
Russia still provides the delivery of American and other astronauts to the ISS with our launch vehicles.
Although there were talks of suggesting to use a trampoline instead of spaceships to get to the ISS.
The representative of ESA Rene Peschel made a strong statement:
He said that they are planning to abandon flights to the ISS by using Russian Soyuz (rocket family).
Dvitriy Rogozin did not leave this statement without comment.
There is no room for ambition, whims, or political games in space.
I know who made this statement, as far as I know, the representative of the Russian branch the ESA. I know him well, I’ll ask him today.
What was meant? How are they going to fly? On brooms, on something else, or on our Russian Soyuz(rocket family).
We will respond to statements with statements, and to actions with actions.
They say do not touch the ISS and these programs.
Ok, but then let's do it this way:
If they want to strike a blow at the economic potential of Russian rocket science
Then let them deliver their astronauts to the ISS by using trampoline!
Боб, Даг! От лица всей команды я хочу сказать, что было большой честью помогать вам в подготовке к миссии запуска.
Знайте, что мы все с вами. Желаю Вам потрясающего полёта и насладиться прекрасными видами нашей замечательной планеты!
Америка запустила!
Батут работает!
Это внутренняя шутка.
There is a haze around the earth
Another sunny day at birth
This is the place humanity calls home
The globe is slowly swirling on
And in the colors of the dawn
It seems so lonely and a bit withdrawn.
The distant stars and galaxies
That seem beyond reality
Are closer but are still as cold as ice
They faintly gleam like feeble sparks
And as were piercing through the dark
We see our homes each time we close our eyes
We neither hear the roaring of a spaceship
Nor see this cold and dark abyss in dreams
We only dream of home, of love and friendship,
And grass of green near babbling mountain streams
We glide amid the satellites
Through outer space of fading lights
Bombarded by meteorites, but fears
Won't challenge our ability
To face this dead tranquility
Enchanted by the music of the spheres
