Comments on: Heads of Space Agency Look Toward Bright Future for ISS Research http://www.parabolicarc.com/2010/03/11/heads-space-agency-bright-future-iss-research/ Space Tourism ... and Much More Fri, 24 May 2013 07:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Doug Messier http://www.parabolicarc.com/2010/03/11/heads-space-agency-bright-future-iss-research/comment-page-1/#comment-2676 Doug Messier Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:27:18 +0000 http://www.parabolicarc.com/?p=12767#comment-2676 Difficult to say. One of the ideas I’ve seen batted around is taking the Russian portions of ISS and building a new station around them. That idea might have made sense if they were going to trash ISS in 2015. But, with the extension it would make no sense at all.

I think the space arena will be quite different by 2020. Russia will have a six-person Soyuz replacement by then. Private space stations could be in orbit. And there will probably be an international push to go the moon. Where would a new Russian station at 65 degrees fit into all that?

]]> By: Nickolai_the_Russian_Guy http://www.parabolicarc.com/2010/03/11/heads-space-agency-bright-future-iss-research/comment-page-1/#comment-2656 Nickolai_the_Russian_Guy Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:37:35 +0000 http://www.parabolicarc.com/?p=12767#comment-2656 I wonder how an ISS extension into the 2020′s would affect Russia’s plan for a successor station… my question being: will they continue to add on to the RS of the ISS, or would they maybe launch a separate station into the 65 degree inclination they’ve always wanted?

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