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Russia Should Pull Out Of ISS If US Missile Shield Goes Up
Moscow (Interfax) Feb. 7, 2001 The leader of the Russian Communist Party and of its faction in the Russian State Duma Gennady Zyuganov sent an open letter to President Vladimir Putin Wednesday, urging him to prevent the crashing of the orbital station Mir. "The U.S. leadership's firm decision to deploy a national missile defense system is making one look at the problem of the orbital complex Mir from an absolutely different angle. "Russia's equitable cooperation with the U.S. within the framework of the International Space Station project is becoming increasingly problematical," Zyuganov writes. Taking this situation into account, the Russian leadership must mothball the orbital complex Mir in its orbit, Zyuganov wrote. "The parliament, the trade unions, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the cosmonauts are all against Mir's dumping. Only the government's financiers, who have frozen the funding of the space program, have come out for crashing the station," he added. Menahwile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has named Alexander Medvedev as the new chief of the Khrunichev spaceship contruction centre, the Kremlin told AFP Wednesday. Medvedev, 48, was appointed to replace Anatoly Kiselyov who recently resigned for health reasons. Russia's 15-year-old space station Mir, due to be ditched in the Pacific Ocean early next month, was built at the Khrunichev space centre, west of Moscow, as were two parts of the new International Space Station (ISS).
Agence France-Presse. Moscow correspondents contributed to this report. CommunityEmail This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Military Space News at SpaceWar.com
Space Group To Activate New Unit
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Jan 6, 2006Air Force Reserve Command's 310th Space Group will travel deeper into the space program when it activates a new unit Jan. 7. Headquarters Reserve National Security Space Institute will be a Reserve associate unit to the National Security Space Institute in Colorado Springs, Colo. The institute is the Department of Defense's focal point for providing education about space power in joint warfighting. |
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