Sunday, January 18, 2015

NO WONDER THE USA CRIMINAL CORPORATION IS BROKE!!!!!!

 

US to buy 60 Russian rocket engines worth $1 billion 

                                                                                                                     
January 16, 9:11 UTC+3 MOSCOW
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The RD-181 engines will be used for the first stage of the Antares rockets, manufactured by Orbital 
 
© ITAR-TASS/Alexey Filippov 
                                   
Energomash rocket engine (archive)     
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MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. Russia's manufacturer NPO Energomash is to provide 60 new RD-181 rocket engines for US company Orbital Sciences, the Izvestia newspaper reported on Friday citing the president of RKK Energia space corporation. 
A contract for the delivery of 20 rocket engines has already been signed, says Vladimir Solntsev, who participated in the deal representing Energomash, as he is the executive director of the group. 
“We are committed to deliver 60 engines. Three options have been signed, each for 20 engines. There is a firm contract for 20 engines, which we have started fulfilling, as we are due to supply the first two engines next June,” Solntsev told the newspaper in an interview.

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Sooooo... the US is choosing to use a rocket (the Antares), which is just barely a step above the rockets used for the Apollo missions back in the stone age of space travel, to send payloads to ISS.  (and god knows what else). They are choosing to pay $1 Billion dollars- $1,000,000,000- to Russia for rocket engines that are barely two steps forward of the engines they built to go to the moon.  Now, don't go all techie on me and try to tell me all the specs that make either of these rockets "high tech" because it's all bullshit.  Both employ technology that has barely made an advance in 40 years- one booster nozzle, two? three? four?  Who cares!  It's still basically putting 4 model T Ford engines in a chassis and calling it "New".

And what about those sanctions against Russia?   Is this not a perfect case of "Do as I say, not as I do"?  What?  The sanctions are just for things that the US doesn't need or want?  Interesting.

Personally I find it very hard to believe the official story (well, truth be told, any of them!) of NASA and their space program that has been beyond ridiculous from it's inception to it's demise.

In the immortal words of Julius Levinson in Independence Day:
"You didn't think they actually spent ten thousand dollars for a hammer and thirty thousand for a toilet seat, did you?" 
I do believe that the US just paid Russia $30,000 for a toilet seat and that they are getting rid of the competition in their private little plumbing business deal.
     
                                       Must have a thick layer of gold plate on the entire potty.
 
  

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