Russia is threatening to leave an American astronaut at the space station. Can they really do this?
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March 11th, 2022
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They are slated to return on March 30. The American has been up there for a year.
Isn’t there some type of contract or law that would forbid that on each side?
If this would happen, Americans would probably never go to the space station again. There would be no trust. So could Russia go this alone?
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I can really not see this happen.
Astronauts/kosmonauts seem to me to be of a different caliber than politicians, in that they have humility.
They’ll never leave their colleague scientist space brethren behind, I’d like to think.
It would be the ultimate toddler move, from the Russians/Putin.
I apologize to toddlers.
We’d just go get them, wouldn’t we?
Is Putin aiming for WWIII?
All Russian hoax / joke according to Ars Technica. “The source of this “news” appears to be a video published more than a week ago by a Kremlin-aligned publication, RIA Novosti. Roscosmos TV provided footage for the video, but in sharing it acknowledged that the video was a “joke.” Now, this is an exceptionally poor joke given the tensions on Earth, but it is important to understand that sharing a video a week ago does not mean Russia is threatening to leave Vande Hei behind. Nothing has changed since the video was posted.” – - https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/after-two-weeks-of-war-the-international-space-station-flies-on/
So much of what comes out of Russia is BS, especially now.
And I think one American astronaut could handle things until someone else came up to join him/her.
The Russians are neither stupid nor callous without purpose. And marooning an astronaut to die would be decidedly both.
This really is looking like the movie 2010.
My bet is Besos, Branson, or one of the other billionaire rocket kids will fly up and retrieve them.
NASA would get them. They put th there.
@HP I beg to differ. Russia is callous without purpose. They bombed a maternity hospital.
And you believe it was without purpose?
I believe the purpose was to murder innocent people.
What’s the purpose in that? And do you believe it somehow unprecedented or in any way exceptional that innocent people are murdered in any war?
The thing is Putin with his own hands has probably killed many people, and many thousands more by his command. He does care about human life; only his life.
Aguably, life is indeed cheap to Putin. Spearheading the assault with rookies serves notice and amplifies the point. Mercy will not be a priority on his agenda for this or any other conflict.
“Additionally, Vande Hei could not be abandoned. At present there are three other Americans living on board the International Space Station—Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, and Thomas Marshburn. There is also an allied astronaut, Matthias Maurer, from Germany. NASA has its own transportation to and from the station, so Vande Hei can be assured ”
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Of course they can. Elon Musk is working on a new space Uber business. No worries!
Musk is crazy enough to do it
There we go again with that word “crazy”. Unorthodox, certainly, but we REALLY should drop that word and recognize the evil it promotes. The word dismisses any concept on the spot as unworthy of further consideration. And that is lazy, stupid and counterproductive.
Since you are the one with problem with that word, maybe you should teach your brain to not read it. I find your ideas counterproductive as well, but you just won’t seem to go away
Yes, that’s the sensible approach. Thank you for the enlightenment.
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