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Ug, NASA collaboration used to be about building bridges even during times of tension. It's sad to see this being reverted in service of politics.

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Ug, NASA collaboration used to be about building bridges even during times of tension That cooperation waxed and waned with the political winds during the cold war; and was mostly pretty feeble except toward the end of the cold war (and even then, it was cancelled in general -- with the same kind of case-by-case exception allowed by the new policy directive -- in response to the Poland martial law crisis in the 1980s.) Its not really all that surprising (or inconsistent with its historical character) that a major reverse in relations at the broader level is reflected in a similar reverse in space cooperation.