Russia became convinced of the craziness of trump
News Trump's proposal to privatize the International Space Station sparked a lively discussion.
Firstly, the station is not American, namely international, it is not clear what exactly the Americans were going to privatize. If only your segment, OK, as they say in America. If all this is space piracy.
Secondly, the burden of maintaining the ISS is enormous. Only the United States of America spends about $ 3-4 billion a year on these goals. This is nonsense of a madman, because not a single commercial company will take such expenses in the absence of prospects for returning their money with profit, such is the opinion of the head of the Space Institute policy Ivan Moiseev.
Indeed, at the moment, the International Space Station is not profitable. This is an international research project. But there is a certain likelihood that the stagnation of views does not allow us to see a certain prospect of its commercial use with all their seeming madness.
The creation of the private space company SpaseX also looked initially insane. How could one imagine competing with the state RosKosmos? Nevertheless, Elon Musk decided to take a chance, and now his company is taking away launch contracts from RosKosmos and launching Tesla into space.
Who knows, maybe brave private investors will eventually be able to create a super-luxury space hotel on the basis of the ISS, where elderly billionaires will live in zero gravity? Will cargo ships carrying ore from the asteroid belt be moored to the ISS? Or maybe international lawyers will think of registering super-offshores in the orbit of the planet where terrestrial legislation will not apply? Or maybe a space casino with space rates will be opened on the basis of the ISS?
Who knows? We are limited only by the limits of our own imagination.
Firstly, the station is not American, namely international, it is not clear what exactly the Americans were going to privatize. If only your segment, OK, as they say in America. If all this is space piracy.
Secondly, the burden of maintaining the ISS is enormous. Only the United States of America spends about $ 3-4 billion a year on these goals. This is nonsense of a madman, because not a single commercial company will take such expenses in the absence of prospects for returning their money with profit, such is the opinion of the head of the Space Institute policy Ivan Moiseev.
Indeed, at the moment, the International Space Station is not profitable. This is an international research project. But there is a certain likelihood that the stagnation of views does not allow us to see a certain prospect of its commercial use with all their seeming madness.
The creation of the private space company SpaseX also looked initially insane. How could one imagine competing with the state RosKosmos? Nevertheless, Elon Musk decided to take a chance, and now his company is taking away launch contracts from RosKosmos and launching Tesla into space.
Who knows, maybe brave private investors will eventually be able to create a super-luxury space hotel on the basis of the ISS, where elderly billionaires will live in zero gravity? Will cargo ships carrying ore from the asteroid belt be moored to the ISS? Or maybe international lawyers will think of registering super-offshores in the orbit of the planet where terrestrial legislation will not apply? Or maybe a space casino with space rates will be opened on the basis of the ISS?
Who knows? We are limited only by the limits of our own imagination.
- Sergey Marzhetsky
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