US astronauts should use trampolines to get into space

[Robby999 1,024]

A Russian official angered over new sanctions that the United States imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis is suggesting that American astronauts get to the International Space Station by using trampolines instead of rockets.

"The United States introduced sanctions against our space industry... We warned them, we will reply to statements with statements, to actions with actions," Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who heads Russia's defense industry, said on Twitter, according to Reuters.

American astronauts depend on Russian rockets to get to the ISS, but after the U.S. imposed sanctions – which deny export licenses for high-tech items that could aid Russia’s military -- Rogozin offered up a different idea.

"I propose that the United States delivers its astronauts to the ISS with the help of a trampoline," he said.

But analysts told Reuters that Russia is unlikely to suspend its shuttle service to the ISS, as NASA provides essential financing for the effort, paying more than $60 million per person to get them into space.

Still, Russia is expected to be hit hard by the sanctions, and five upcoming commercial satellite launches -- contracted by foreign clients at a Russian space center -- could be at risk.

Earlier this month, NASA was also banned from contacting the Russian government.

"This is a very sensitive issue since our defense industry was completely unprepared for such developments," Sergei Oznobishchev, the director at the Institute for Strategic Assessments think tank in Moscow, told Reuters. "Both sides will suffer but Russia will lose out more in terms of technology transfer."

Analysts say Russia lags behind in production of high-tech electronic equipment, such as microchips for satellites, and is reliant on imports from Western nations.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/04/30/us-astronauts-should-use-trampolines-to-get-into-space-russian-official-says/?intcmp=latestnews

I guess someone better run one of those decommissioned shuttles down to Jiffy Lube and have her serviced!

Edited May 1, 2014 by Robby999

[Janelle2002 3,865]

All of the unemployed, poor people and underfunded schools in America and we are spending $60 million, per person, for people to vacation on the moon. Splendid.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

All of the unemployed, poor people and underfunded schools in America and we are spending $60 million, per person, for people to vacation on the moon. Splendid.

Because paying people to have babies is way more important than advancing science and bettering Mankind

All of the unemployed, poor people and underfunded schools in America and we are spending $60 million, per person, for people to vacation on the moon. Splendid.

Because paying people to have babies is way more important than advancing science and bettering Mankind

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Because paying people to have babies is way more important than advancing science and bettering Mankind

Because paying people to have babies is way more important than advancing science and bettering Mankind

So $ 60 million a person to go to the freaking moon is better than giving teachers a raise from $35,000 to at least $60,000 so they can educate the future moon walkers of America? You can't be serious, right? OR how about paying the people better money that protect us in every day life, like for example, the Police, you know those people who rush to save you when you need them?

$60 million a person is just putting fat money in pockets. There is no justification for spending $60 million a person to go to the moon. That is just taking U.S. citizens money.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

60 million per person to go to a research facility in an environment in which experiments that cannot physically take place on earth due to gravity constraints can occur. Experiments which may help us colonize space at some point in the future, which will be needed if all those babies have babies and their babies have babies.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

So $ 60 million a person to go to the freaking moon is better than giving teachers a raise from $35,000 to at least $60,000 so they can educate the future moon walkers of America? You can't be serious, right? OR how about paying the people better money that protect us in every day life, like for example, the Police, you know those people who rush to save you when you need them?

$60 million a person is just putting fat money in pockets. There is no justification for spending $60 million a person to go to the moon. That is just taking U.S. citizens money.

Do you have any idea how much advancement came from our Space Race days ?

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Do you have any idea how much advancement came from our Space Race days ?

I do. But $60 million a person, please!

Do you know how much advancement came from the donkey, or the mule, or making the wheel round.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

I do. But $60 million a person, please!

Do you know how much advancement came from the donkey, or the mule, or making the wheel round.

Pretty stagnet tech for 1000's of years

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

I do. But $60 million a person, please!

Do you know how much advancement came from the donkey, or the mule, or making the wheel round.

The domestication of the donkey took thousands of years. Which represents a HUGE investment, even if 'dollars' didn't exist. The breeding of a single mule, which requires having a horse (less useful for a lot of tasks you would want mules for) and a donkey (stubborn and often on the small side for usefulness) represented a HUGE investment for a farmer. And the making of the wheel round was more likely an evolution of using a bunch of trees with limbs removed as rollers--their round shape being natural--and the cutting down of those trees and using them for something other than just building likely represented a huge investment too.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

The domestication of the donkey took thousands of years. Which represents a HUGE investment, even if 'dollars' didn't exist. The breeding of a single mule, which requires having a horse (less useful for a lot of tasks you would want mules for) and a donkey (stubborn and often on the small side for usefulness) represented a HUGE investment for a farmer. And the making of the wheel round was more likely an evolution of using a bunch of trees with limbs removed as rollers--their round shape being natural--and the cutting down of those trees and using them for something other than just building likely represented a huge investment too.

$60 million a person.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Do you have any idea how much advancement came from our Space Race days ?

NASA was once a huge part of American pride. I still remember watching Neil Armstrong take that first step onto the moons surface. I remember when I was in elementary school they would bring a TV into the classroom and we would watch each rocket launch, counting out in unison, 10, 9, 8, .......... It was/is the final frontier. I for one feel we have lost something important with all the cuts at NASA. We now have to rely on a foreign country to put an American in space when we were the leader in the technology to do so for decades? Very sad indeed.

Edited May 1, 2014 by spookyturtle

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

"I propose that the United States delivers its astronauts to the ISS with the help of a trampoline," he said.

All else aside, you gotta appreciate the sense of humor in this statement.

[Rattlehead 69]

All else aside, you gotta appreciate the sense of humor in this statement.

I had the same thought.... at least the dude was able to project some humor.

[Neonred 3,664]

All of the unemployed, poor people and underfunded schools in America and we are spending $60 million, per person, for people to vacation on the moon. Splendid.

Who's going to the moon?

As for any flights into space, perhaps the US will now need to pay the Chinese to fly our astraonauts.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Who's going to the moon?

As for any flights into space, perhaps the US will now need to pay the Chinese to fly our astraonauts.

My point exactly. When you figure out who is going to the moon let me know.