How Screwed Is The ISS And The Astronauts ??

[kschachn]

It (ISS) is set for disposal 2030.
They will guide it to reentry over the south Pacific, away from inhabited islands.
Apparently they ditch just about everything there.
The disposal schedule will probably be stepped up several years.
Maybe even this current cycle of operations ??

If you think they are going to ditch the ISS during the current Expedition 66 you're crazy.

 

[vw7674]

If you think they are going to ditch the ISS during the current Expedition 66 you're crazy.

we'll see. currently? No. But probably not the 2030 schedule mentioned recently.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Lots of Google hits on the subject matter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/25/nasa-and-space-partnerships-with-russia-face-ukraine-challenge.html

https://www.google.com/search?q=Does+the+space+station+need+russian+rockets&newwindow=1

 

[SubLGT]

https://thehill.com/policy/international/595923-russian-space-chief-threatens-iss-over-sanctions

.... Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin tweeted that the ISS's current location is under Russian control.

"If you block cooperation with us, who will save the International Space Station (ISS) from an uncontrolled deorbit and fall into the United States or...Europe?" Rogozin said in one of his tweets. "There is also the possibility of a 500-ton structure falling on India and China. Do you want to threaten them with such a prospect? The ISS does not fly over Russia, therefore all the risks are yours. Are you ready for them?"

 

[edyvw]

https://thehill.com/policy/international/595923-russian-space-chief-threatens-iss-over-sanctions

Rogozin always threatens. When there is nothing to threaten about, he will go out on balcony and threaten clouds. Togozin is prime example of an old man yelling at cloud.

 

[jhellwig]

There is actually a non Russian supply craft at the station now that is going to preform a boost but not because of any of the current political issues.

Space stations have sat unoccupied in orbit for years and still put back to use later.

 

[billt460]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/russi...ne-in-space-partnership-former-astronaut-says

 

[Dave Hess]

It is interesting that NASA still does not have a way to get Astronauts up. If it were not for SpaceX, we would be in exactly the same place were were when the Space Shuttle was retired.

For all of NASA's talk, they are amazingly far behind. Think about the Saturn 1B from years ago. A rocket put together from available parts. Yet, today, 12 years after the shuttle retired, NASA has NOTHING.

Very sad how things have gone at NASA.

 

[eljefino]

It is interesting that NASA still does not have a way to get Astronauts up. If it were not for SpaceX, we would be in exactly the same place were were when the Space Shuttle was retired.

For all of NASA's talk, they are amazingly far behind. Think about the Saturn 1B from years ago. A rocket put together from available parts. Yet, today, 12 years after the shuttle retired, NASA has NOTHING.

They get what money congress gives them.

 

[edyvw]

They get what money congress gives them.

People don't understand how political NASA's budget really is. If Congress gives them an equal amount of money like in 1960s, calculating inflation, they are going to Mars in a decade.

 

[john_pifer]

People don't understand how political NASA's budget really is. If Congress gives them an equal amount of money like in 1960s, calculating inflation, they are going to Mars in a decade.

Yep. Lots of congresspeople think anything to do with space exploration is a waste of money.

 

[football]

Russia has stopped selling us rocket engines. We use those rocket engines to good effect. Now we have to reverse engineer or come up with new rocket engines for the rocket systems that use these Russian rockets.

Supposedly the Russian side of the space station has the rocket system installed that can be used to adjust the stations orbit. They use the system to keep the station in proper orbit.

They have threatened to crash the ISS back to earth. Standard Russian rhetoric of madmen.

 

[UG_Passat]

The bigger concern is Russia's ASAT system, which is an anti-satellite missile, which puts low earth orbit things at risk

 

[Astro14]

People don't understand how political NASA's budget really is. If Congress gives them an equal amount of money like in 1960s, calculating inflation, they are going to Mars in a decade.

During the peak of the Moon Race years, NASA was nearly 10% of federal spending. DOD was 50%.

Currently NASA is 0.5% of Federal spending. DOD is 16%. This is before all the stimulus, etc. which distorts the percentages.

So, NASA was once 1/5 the DOD, now it is 1/30.

NASA would need to have twenty times its current budget to be comparable with the Moon years in gross Federal spending, but because the nature of Federal spending has changed so much, just giving NASA six times its current budget would put it back in its former relationship with DOD.

Six times the budget would allow them to do a great deal more than they do currently.

 

[edyvw]

During the peak of the Moon Race years, NASA was nearly 10% of federal spending. DOD was 50%.

Currently NASA is 0.5% of Federal spending. DOD is 16%. This is before all the stimulus, etc. which distorts the percentages.

So, NASA was once 1/5 the DOD, now it is 1/30.

NASA would need to have twenty times its current budget to be comparable with the Moon years in gross Federal spending, but because the nature of Federal spending has changed so much, just giving NASA six times its current budget would put it back in its former relationship with DOD.

Six times the budget would allow them to do a great deal more than they do currently.

And some 270,000 people were involved in Apollo program. Huge difference between then and now.

 

[Wolf359]

During the peak of the Moon Race years, NASA was nearly 10% of federal spending. DOD was 50%.

Currently NASA is 0.5% of Federal spending. DOD is 16%. This is before all the stimulus, etc. which distorts the percentages.

So, NASA was once 1/5 the DOD, now it is 1/30.

NASA would need to have twenty times its current budget to be comparable with the Moon years in gross Federal spending, but because the nature of Federal spending has changed so much, just giving NASA six times its current budget would put it back in its former relationship with DOD.

Six times the budget would allow them to do a great deal more than they do currently.

And that's why the James Webb telescope is known as the telescope that ate astronomy. Ate up way too much of the budget for them to do other things. In theory once Starship fires up, maybe that will change because a lot of money is spent trying to shave off weight and make things fit in a small space and if you can put a lot of weight into space at a much lower cost, then you don't have to make things so small and light which saves a lot of money.