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Related: About this forumNASA Suspends Contact With Russia's Space Agency Over Ukraine
NASA has ceased working with the Russian government over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and Crimea.
The Verge reports that NASA is suspending all contact with Russian government officials. This ban extends to teleconferences, visits by Russian government officials to NASA facilities, email exchanges with Russian officials, and travel to Russia.
NASA's communications with Russia about their support for the two American astronauts currently on the International Space Station are exempt. That includes organization and completion of a scheduled Soyuz capsule launch on April 9.
Astronaut Reid Wiseman is scheduled to head to the ISS on the Russian Soyuz capsule, which is planned to launch on May 28. He's traveling with Russian Cosmonaut Maksim Viktorovich Surayev and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst.
A NASA scientist who spoke to The Verge on the condition of anonymity, slammed the move: "NASA's goals aren't political. This is one of the first major actions I have heard of from the US government and it is to stop Science and Technology collaboration. ... You're telling me there is nothing better?"
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-bans-contact-with-russias-space-agency-2014-4
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)We have a renewed "cold war". Yippee.
In case it's necessary.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)I thought this was satire at first. Sheesh.
This will really make Putin Pay
840high
(17,196 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Holy cow.
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jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has also directed the Air Force to review the use of Russian engines in rockets that send American military satellites into orbit. The Atlas 5 rockets, now produced by a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, have been built for years with Russian-made RD-180 engines. American officials are exploring the consequences of possible supply interruptions
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/world/europe/nasa-breaks-most-contact-with-russia.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=0