Russia's Role in the ISS in Trouble

Uhh_Duh writes "cnn.com is reporting that the Russian space program has fallen on hard times and is no longer capable of launching independent missions due to budget problems. The article touches on the fact that their annual funding is about 309 million versus the U.S. budget of 15 billion. They've also announced that they will not be meeting most of their future deliverables for the international space station." (corrected, the title originally said "IIS" instead of "ISS)

I say they should...

[craenor]

Carry all of the boy bands into space for $100 million...then take bids on an open auction to leave them there...

IIS?

[DJPenguin]

I'm not suprised Russia had a hand in making MSFT's web server product.

Maybe they mean ISS? Who knows? Who cares?

Oh god I've just had a premonition. We are going to have a lot of In Soviet Russia jokes aren't we...

If the Russians can't help with the IIS...

[Pastor Fluff]

are they going to switch to apache instead?

typo you fool

[gingerTabs]

I didn't realise The russians space program was so involved m$ products...

Re:They changed my title

[stratjakt]

What's a bafoon?

Do you mean buffoon?

You are a spelling idiot. Self-fullfilling prophecy?

If they don't pay up...

[esanbock]

We better tell the Soviet Russians that if they don't pay up, all their space base are belong to us.

Please try to keep posts on topic.

Here's a topic for you:

[Anonymous Coward]

The International Space Station is now neither International nor a Space Station. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Reminds me of the old engineer joke...

[Zog The Undeniable]

The Russians may have budget problems, but...

An American astronaut in space in 1970 was asked by a reporter, "How do you feel?"

"How would you feel," the astronaut replied, "if you were stuck here, on top of 20,000 parts, each one supplied by the lowest engineering bidder?"

Re:Money Dependence

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry, for a moment there I thought I read it as "Monkey" Dependence. Said to self, "Are they still sending those poor things up there? No wonder..."

Honestly...

[lonedfx]

When has Russia's role NOT been in trouble as a partner in ISS ? Honestly I'm waiting for the news that'll say :

Russia's Role in ISS no longer in trouble!

Now THAT will be news.

lone, dfx.

Re:Sadly, I no longer need to imagine

[SuiteSisterMary]

Sorry, I have to....

In Soviet Union, Comrade Natalie Portman pours hot grits down your pants!

Read slashdot - Avoid mistakes

[ehiris]

Based on this article [slashdot.org] confusing the ISS with IIS is due to reading slashdot too much. It's safe to assume the person who posted IIS isn't reading slashdot enough to be warned of BIG mistakes (considering the amount of invaluable posts moderated high) which could be made.

Re:I say they should...

[saider]

Fucking in space would be rather painful. I'd much rather fuck in a spaceship.

0-G sex would also introduce control and fluid problems. If you want to try it, I know there are pilots who will take you up in a private airplane and let you join the Mile High club. They top it off by doing Vomit-Comet maneuvers to simulate microgravity.

Russia should consider a porn in space. It helped with the proliferation of the internet.

Even if their ROLE is in trouble...

[Tsar]

...can't they compensate with pitch and yaw?

IIS vs ISS

[Anonymous Coward]

Whats the difference - seems the're both flawed in design, implementation and dependence on unreliable suppliers...

Re:They changed my title

[fobbman]

Next time add a few obvious spelling errors in the post so that the editors don't have to add them themselves.

Won't this be frustrating...

[Alethes]

1) The International Space Station becomes the American Space Station due to the lack of participation from other nations.

2) 10 years from now, the full project is launched. Yeah, this is hypothetical, just deal.

3) Teachers get excited and want to show their students the breaking news at cnn.com.

4) Censorware detects "ASS" all over the site and denies the teachers and students access to the biggest NASA news in years.

Re:Funniest Typo Ever

[SweetAndSourJesus]

Then there was the time I accidentally misspelled "Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury" as "I'll kill you! I'll kill all of you! And burn your goddanmed houses down!"

Boy, that was a doozie.