The Ruins of the Soviet Space Shuttles

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Post by cabinover » Sat. Jun. 13, 2015 9:53 pm

Wish I could read Russian. Makes me wonder what all the captions say as well as the posts from Russians.

 
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Post by Pauliewog » Sat. Jun. 13, 2015 10:09 pm

Wow .....A lot of money sitting there for only one unmanned flight!

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Post by SMITTY » Sat. Jun. 13, 2015 10:24 pm

I translated the last paragraph ... with my secret translating skills. :D This is the very last section above the phrase in English:
History spirals. This is an objective process, repeated over and over again. You can regret for the lost time and to mourn about the past greatness, but the facts remain above this - Russia is rapidly losing its status as a leading space power. For more than twenty years, the country does not produce anything new in principle, continuing to exploit the legacy of the Soviet Union. Only lead the modernization of the old backlog, but otherwise everything is just words on paper and projects. Sure, notable past will allow to stay afloat even a decade or two in the role of a space cab, but only as long as the Chinese missiles are not overstep its proper boundary changes and hurl prices on the conclusion of cargo into orbit.

From Space romance gone, leaving her only dry figures of financial statistics. Why spend billions on the space, if it does not bring profit for the foreseeable future?

In times of confrontation of political systems, the race between the two superpowers has a beneficial effect on the scientific and technical progress. The possible use of military and ideological gave rise to dozens of various projects. Yes, most of them did not go beyond the drawings and models, but the ones that leaked through the sieve test and commissions received unlimited support.

Future Soviet reusable orbiters were not destined even before birth. Despite the huge financial loss ratio of such starts, they can hold out for long on the world stage, giving the vector for future horizons.

And to finish my article I want to play on the title and epigraph.

 
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Post by cabinover » Sun. Jun. 14, 2015 6:30 am

Smitty, you sure the author wasn't writing about the USA in the first 5 sentences?

 
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Post by SWPaDon » Sun. Jun. 14, 2015 6:49 am

If you have 'Bing' on your computer, just right click on the page........then click 'translate'.

The title of the post is "God in the Bedroom"

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