Obama's plan was to obliterate America as the world leader in the economy, in space exploration and military power and he has succeeded. And some Americans, after all of that, will vote for this treasonous piece of shit in November.
The story comes from Business Day.
p.s. Imagine ... U.S. space exploration is now only being covered by the likes of "Business Day" ?
Soyuz launches new crew to space station
A TRIO of Russian, Japanese and US astronauts blasted off aboard a Soyuz spaceship yesterday for a four-month mission on the International Space Station that Moscow hopes will help restore confidence in its space programme.
Veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, the US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide launched successfully aboard the Soyuz TMA-05M rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
They are scheduled to berth early tomorrow, joining Nasa flight engineer Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin aboard the space station, a $100bn research complex orbiting 385km above earth.
"The Soyuz had a very smooth ride into space," a spokesman for Nasa said during a live broadcast on the agency’s television channel.
Since the retirement of the space shuttles last year, the US is dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the space station, which costs the country $60m per person.
Moscow hopes a successful mission will help to restore confidence in its once-pioneering space programme after a string of launch mishaps last year, including the failure of a mission to return samples from the Martian moon Phobos.
The previous Soyuz launch on May 15 was delayed by more than one month to allow Russia’s partly state-owned space contractor, RKK Energia, to prepare a new capsule for launch after an accident during pressure tests damaged the Soyuz crew capsule.
There were no such delays with yesterday ’s launch.
"The most tense, the most difficult part (of the launch) has been successfully implemented," said Vladimir Popovkin, head of Russian space agency Roscosmos.
"I have just spoken to the crew. They are feeling great," Russian news agencies quoted Mr Popovkin as saying. "I have no doubts that all will go according to plan."
Asked by m ission c ontrol how the crew was feeling, Mr Malenchenko, a cosmonaut on his fifth space voyage, said: "Good." A doll given to him by his daughter dangled from the roof of the capsule.
Ms Williams and Mr Hoshide are both on their second space flight and their first aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. They, with Mr Malenchenko, are to return to e arth in mid-November. The previous crew of three at the station returned on July 1.
Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Nasa astronaut Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers helped to dock the first privately owned spacecraft during a six-month stint in orbit.
At the end of May, this crew released Space Exploration Technologies’ unmanned Dragon cargo, which arrived as part of a test flight and was the first privately owned spaceship to reach the 15-nation international space station project.
Yesterday’s launch took place less than three weeks after China’s Shenzhou 9 spacecraft returned to earth, ending a mission that put the country’s first woman in space. It marked China’s fourth manned space mission since 2003.
Reuters
2 comments:
As someone that many would call an extreme fiscal conservative, I fully support my tax dollars going to NASA.
It's absolutely sickening to see how much NASA's budget has shrunk since the 1960's:
Budget of NASA
For 2012: 0.48% of the national budget. Sad. I wonder how soon before we'll have to outsource satellite launches to China.
It's simple. The only programs that Barack Obama has actually CUT have been those that elevated the U.S. in the opinion and stature of the world. Every other program where dependency is showcased, he has increased the spending.
:Holger Danske
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