Timeline for Who can now resupply the ISS?
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| Jun 30, 2015 at 18:04 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @OrganicMarble: No, of course not. But for some reason I thought that China were partners. NASA doesn't own the [entire] station. | |
| Jun 30, 2015 at 15:08 | comment | added | Organic Marble | @LightnessRacesinOrbit surely you can't really think that just because it's called the ISS that anyone who wants to can show up? North Korea? Iran? | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 19:19 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @TildalWave: "China is not a partner in ISS" Oh, okay then. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 18:50 | comment | added | TildalWave | @LightnessRacesinOrbit China is not a partner in ISS. And NASA can't spend a penny on Chinese cooperation because that act is tied with their budget that goes both through House and Senate for approval. US president merely proposes NASA's budget and what it would be spent on, then it's up to a fairly convoluted process what actually comes out of it. So yes, if China sent their taikonauts to ISS and it wouldn't be a rescue effort (as per UNOOSA Rescue Agreement) or agreed with ISS partners, it would be against Outer Space Treaty and the non-interference act. I.e. it would be considered hostile. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 17:28 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Not sure I understand why NASA needs to be spending a penny on anything. ISS is by definition an international operation. Do the US republicans think they can somehow ban the Chinese from visiting an international station? | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 14:42 | comment | added | TildalWave | Policy is flexible in time frame nobody has got the time to wait for it to flex. And with republicans now in charge in Senate, House et al., it would have to flex forward with back to China, which simply won't happen. Anyway, there's House CSST Subcommittee on Space hearing announced for July 10 regarding the status of the ISS, so we shall see how flexible they are prepared to be. There's more chance (and still pretty much zero) that they'd ask ISRO since they invited them to propose ISS cooperation model. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 14:37 | comment | added | LocalFluff | @TildalWave Policy is flexible. The little I know, seems like it looks technically possible to use Shenzhou. If US/NASA's choice is the ISS or Russia, then Chinese spaceflight might become an interesting third alternative. I imagine it. Long shot maybe. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 14:12 | comment | added | TildalWave | Erm, no not by a long shot. NASA is prohibited by Frank Wolf's P.L. 113-235 act to spend a penny on dialogue or any other activities with China and that is still in effect despite the recent bilateral government meetings establishing grounds for dialogue (but not by NASA, yet). See spacepolicyonline.com/news/… Besides, there's a Soyuz / Progress 60P launch in 4 days. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 12:40 | history | answered | LocalFluff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |