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The "I" in "ISS" stands for International. It is a collaboration between the USA, Russia, Japan, Europe, and Canada, with the USA and Russia being responsible f

The "I" in "ISS" stands for International. It is a collaboration between the USA, Russia, Japan, Europe, and Canada, with the USA and Russia being responsible for most of its initial construction. It is one of the crowning achievements of humanity so far and helps to prove that we don't all suffer from the same petty xenophobia that your comment demonstrates.

kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
It is a scheme to keep Russian engineers from working for Iran and North Korea. Same as the foolish plan to build US rockets with Russian engines.
PhantomGremlin 5y ago
petty xenophobia Was it facts? How does stating the facts of how things were done in the late stages of the USSR space program and are done in the current Russian space program translate to petty xenophobia? If you want xenophobia, didn't the Russians accuse us of drilling holes in their space station module? Or was that just domestic propaganda?
- pinewurst 5y ago
  Don’t forget their blaming sinister US radars for the failure of their last Mars launch too.
  - hnbad 5y ago
    Just to make sure we're all aware that the US also engages in absurdist finger-pointing (even post-war), let's remember the time the US embassy in Cuba claimed that it was being attacked with scientifically impossible sonic weapons or even microwave radiation.
    - janto 5y ago
      uhm, this one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome because it doesn't look absurd at all.
    - pinewurst 5y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Signal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Signal
- iaml 5y ago
  Not sure why you are downvoted, this whole situation was making rounds in media and resurfaced recently, seemingly connected with this whole Nauka module drama. They've been insinuating[0][1][2] pretty hard through the government controlled media that "someone" drilled a hole in russian module so that they would send them to Earth because they are depressed? Pretty wild if you ask me, especially considering they checked the hole from outside and it turns out it was covered with some material afterwards and probably was there at the point of launch. [0] https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/6115d42b9a794727d1266340 https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/6115d42b9a794727d1266340 [1] https://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2018/09/04/n_11990893.shtml https://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2018/09/04/n_11990893.sht... [2] https://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2018/09/03/n_11988091.shtml https://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2018/09/03/n_11988091.sht...
quacked 5y ago
I worked as a cog in the ISS program for three years and every ex-Soviet or Russian employee we had working for us would agree with the comment you're responding to- I totally understand how it seems like a rude comment but it's grounded in reality.
redis_mlc 5y ago
> It is one of the crowning achievements of humanity lol. So many HN scifi fanbois. It's junk - de-orbit it ASAP. Instead of "Where's the beef?", with the ISS it's, "Where's the science?"

kevin_thibedeau 5y ago

It is a scheme to keep Russian engineers from working for Iran and North Korea. Same as the foolish plan to build US rockets with Russian engines.

PhantomGremlin 5y ago

petty xenophobia Was it facts? How does stating the facts of how things were done in the late stages of the USSR space program and are done in the current Russian space program translate to petty xenophobia? If you want xenophobia, didn't the Russians accuse us of drilling holes in their space station module? Or was that just domestic propaganda?

pinewurst 5y ago
Don’t forget their blaming sinister US radars for the failure of their last Mars launch too.
- hnbad 5y ago
  Just to make sure we're all aware that the US also engages in absurdist finger-pointing (even post-war), let's remember the time the US embassy in Cuba claimed that it was being attacked with scientifically impossible sonic weapons or even microwave radiation.
  - janto 5y ago
    uhm, this one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome because it doesn't look absurd at all.
  - pinewurst 5y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Signal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Signal
iaml 5y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted, this whole situation was making rounds in media and resurfaced recently, seemingly connected with this whole Nauka module drama. They've been insinuating[0][1][2] pretty hard through the government controlled media that "someone" drilled a hole in russian module so that they would send them to Earth because they are depressed? Pretty wild if you ask me, especially considering they checked the hole from outside and it turns out it was covered with some material afterwards and probably was there at the point of launch. [0] https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/6115d42b9a794727d1266340 https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/6115d42b9a794727d1266340 [1] https://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2018/09/04/n_11990893.shtml https://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2018/09/04/n_11990893.sht... [2] https://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2018/09/03/n_11988091.shtml https://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2018/09/03/n_11988091.sht...

quacked 5y ago

I worked as a cog in the ISS program for three years and every ex-Soviet or Russian employee we had working for us would agree with the comment you're responding to- I totally understand how it seems like a rude comment but it's grounded in reality.

redis_mlc 5y ago

> It is one of the crowning achievements of humanity lol. So many HN scifi fanbois. It's junk - de-orbit it ASAP. Instead of "Where's the beef?", with the ISS it's, "Where's the science?"