>By 2018, NASA and its partners will have to pay roughly $81 million per person to ride a Soyuz to the ISS and back again — a cost increase of 372% in 10 years. (The total cost to NASA over 12 years will be about $3.37 billion.)
>The cheapest Soyuz seats NASA ever paid for were $21.8 million in 2007 and 2008.
>As soon as the space agency permanently grounded its space shuttles, though, Russia sharply raised the cost per seat. And it shows no signs of stopping while NASA, JAXA, and the European Space Agency wait for other options.
>That contrasts to the $58 million NASA expects to pay per seat aboard SpaceX's and Boeing's ships, or roughly $214 million per space shuttle passenger. (Both numbers account for total lifetime costs of each spacecraft's development.)
>nasa fails in creating a cheap rocket to go into space >demand for russian launches go up >price goes up wow who would have seen this coming?
Jose Butler
America lost the Space Race.
Thanks Trump
Nolan King
>this is what winning the space race looks like murifats are so cucked
Christian Jackson
>liberal kills NASA >surprised when cost skyrockets because there is no more competition
Checks out
Chase Young
>Put santions cause they take a region with 90% support while you have invade irak with 0% support >mad that they blackmail you with what little they have left
Cameron Harris
>Russia has monopoly on human space travel WAAAAH, WHY DO THEY INCREASE PRICES
Luis Mitchell
nigger tax killed nasa
Liam Martinez
And they've kept paying that? smells like corruption
Thomas Brooks
>sanction russia on nearly everything >"WHY DO THEY INCREASE THE PRICES ON THE THINGS WE DIDNT SANCTION THEM?"
Aiden Brown
That's not right, it's an international effort, and it is done to represent all of humanity, not just Russians. It makes no sense for them to keep charging us, the Euros, and the Japanese more and more each time, over some political issues.
Brayden Johnson
seriously it's like the soviets are actually learning something from their mistakes while burgers are just getting fatter, dumber, darker
Austin Gutierrez
You guys are free to sit at a table with Russia and resolve the many issues you have with them.
But I guess it's easier to point fingers and issue sanctions though.
Jonathan King
>go to the moon >literally nothing there >everything else is months or years away in terms of travel just to never be able to return anyway We won but only by winning did we realize unless we develop better technology for space travel it's absolutely worthless at this time.
Russians are just running the most expensive taxi service ever to get into orbit.
Elijah Baker
пeндocы cacaть
Liam Jenkins
>what are contracts
Nolan Taylor
Who cares? Starting from 2018/2019 US and European crews will fly from the US again.
Our space shuttle program ended under Barack Obama. He killed our space program because we had to pay gibsmuhdats to niggers and spics.
Adam Smith
>embargo Russia with your satelite """""""countries""""""" >muh dolareedoos
Bentley Brown
yeah just like 2,500 tesla model 3's produced by the end of october.
Musk is a con artist and his house of cards is collapsing.
Juan Baker
we had spaceship factories decades ago but stupidly shut them down
Asher Evans
/thread
>what is supply and demand
Matthew Flores
Foreign Relations: Occupy their scientists with benign Space Program or ignore them and have them building NBC's...come on guys!
Ian Allen
It's because Americans keep getting fatter so it takes more and more fuel to get them up into space.
David Williams
Obama personally cut the funding for the SLS and Orion projects and then told the head of NASA their new goal was advancing Muslims in America. No I'm not kidding.
Henry Butler
Wrong! G. Dub's killed it (correctly, because old/over budget) to bring in Commercial Space Industry. Get a brain morans!
Benjamin Miller
ahahahah
Jayden Martinez
When we made ICBM's the moon no longer had any value.
Science fiction is written by losers.
Hunter Jones
you forgot: "first man to be intentionally killed in re-entry"
Xavier Bennett
Wow it's almost like monopolies stifle competition and cause artificially inflated prices.
Fucking weird.
Owen Davis
Kek you'd think so but I'm sure they keep asstronauts at a consistent weight
Bentley Bailey
Boeing is also building a spacecraft under that NASA contract. And there is no reason to assume that either of the vehicles will be delayed substantially.
Im suprised Russia still takes Americans into space. I think they only do it because past leaders signed a law saying no matter how shit relations are they will still work together in space. I think Obama nearlly wiped that out 2. But then your Nasa guys would be fucked and not get into space.
Owen Myers
>first animal in space >this event is relevant today lmao
John Fisher
That's nice. We might send it unmanned around the moon once.
But science fiction was completely wrong about the exploitation of space, so this isn't leading anywhere.
Tell me when musk gives a launch date for a NERVA powered rocket.
Landon Nguyen
>sanctions us to shit and blackmails Europeans to not buy our gas >cries when we up the prices a little Oh look, jew cries in pain as he strikes you and accuses you of something hes actually doing himself. Well thats certainly never happened before.
Nolan Moore
Just give SpaceX more gibs then.
Manned space flight is shit anyway. It should all be unmanned.
Christopher Phillips
Burgerland is really start to fade. And that's a good thing
Leo Kelly
>space doggos >not important What are you, a muslim? Still more important than the first woman.
William Morales
Why would they not? The US jews them over whenever possible, so of course they're looking for financial consessions where ever they can get them. Also, the US will have it's own reusable rocket program soon, making this Russian garbage little more than an ICBM.
Alexander Walker
Is that you Iranian faggot with peace sign?
Xavier Anderson
Shut up and pay for the ride, you burger cunt.
Nicholas Johnson
Don't be a space jew Sergei
Josiah Fisher
>capitalist pigs not understanding supply and demand mechanism
you gotta be fucking kidding me
Jack Evans
Get back to your grave, communism is dead, you lost motherfucker
Jaxson Diaz
even though I like capitalism this is funny
Logan Scott
> laika is not important
Colton Thompson
>le Russians aren't white , are corrupt alcoholic Subhumans >Literally the whole mankind and le most powerful nation in the world needs help by Russkies to get into space AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahaha >The absolute size of merimutts cognitive dissonance
Kek Saved
John Young
>That's nice. We might send it unmanned around the moon once.
That‘s Orion you‘re thinking of. That is an entirely different story and has nothing to do with sending people to the ISS.
Anthony Davis
>america lost the space race >space x won ~45% of launch contracts for 2017 >space x currently has ~65% of launch contracts for 2018 >ULA has the heaviest payload launch vehicle since 2004 SpaceX will double it by the end of 2017 and maintain the lead indefinitely. >only reusable rockets
who lost?
Dylan Bennett
>Tell me when musk gives a launch date for a NERVA powered rocket. With 10x100 megaton warheads?
Hudson Young
What's wrong with relying on Russians to get into space? Russians rely on us, too for things like computers. It's an international effort, that is why it's called the ISS (International Space Station).
Adrian Cox
there is a problem when you afford them a defacto monopoly under terms of mutual cooperation and they begin you gouge you immediately.
