Despised Rogozin
Once again, Dmitry Rogozin, the general manager of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, is attacking the US government.
On Monday, the US Department of Commerce lifted economic sanctions against a long list of Chinese and Russian companies linked to their respective military, Ars Technica reports. These include the Progress Rocket Space Center in Samara, Russia, which makes Soyuz rockets that astronauts and cosmonauts have ridden at the International Space Station for nearly a decade. Rogozin is not happy about the burned-out bridge, calling the sanctions “illegal” and “stupid” – and at this point he draws attention to the shaky relationship between the two great space powers.
Inside the Jabs
Rogozin appears to have taken the sanctions personally, doubling his 2014 comment that NASA could also use a trampoline to send astronauts into space if it severed ties with Roscosmos.
The “trampoline” comment, which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk rubbed not so subtly on Rogozin’s face after SpaceX took astronauts to the ISS in June, has become a common theme in Rogozin’s frequent outbursts.
Poison The Well
Rozogin argues that the US government may not have thought of imposing sanctions on a company it has relied on for more than a decade.
“Now, it seems that our American colleagues have the ‘work trampoline’ again and the first thing they have done is to spit in the Samara well,” Rogozin said of the sanctions, according to burnt. “It’s not too early, colleagues, if your ‘trampoline’. will it break suddenly again and you will have to satisfy your passion for space in our fountain again? ”
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