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Re: NASA buys $490 million CCCP rides to ISS

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Emmerich Schultheiß wrote:

> "NASA has been forced to pay Russia nearly half a billion dollars to
> transport US astronauts to the International Space Station"
> 
> https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28015/
> 
> The CCCP not that bad after all.

The 'nym-shifting troll must have been hibernating for more than two decades 
before they started haunting these physics newsgroups.

It *was* _СССР_ (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик “Union of the 
Soviet Socialist Republics”, informally Soviet Union, abbreviated SU); not 
CCCP.  If one is using foreign abbreviations, one has to use the foreign 
alphabet to get it right.

It *was*, because the SU does not exist anymore since 1991 (CE).  One of its 
successor states, which is informally called Russia now, is the Russian 
Federation (Российская Федерация).

BTW, the “Soyuz” (Союз “Union”) spacecraft that astronauts/cosmonauts are 
using to get to the ISS was named for the SU which had built it as part of 
their space program in the 1960s.

See also: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(spacecraft)> pp.


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NASA buys $490 million CCCP  rides to ISS Emmerich Schultheiß <emme@noemail.thx> - 2015-08-09 16:40 +0000
  Re: NASA buys $490 million CCCP  rides to ISS Emmerich Schultheiß <emme@noemail.thx> - 2015-08-09 16:45 +0000
    Re: NASA buys $490 million CCCP  rides to ISS benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 01:59 -0400
  Re: NASA buys $490 million CCCP  rides to ISS Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-09 21:05 +0200
    Re: NASA buys $490 million CCCP  rides to ISS Emmerich Schultheiß <emme@noemail.thx> - 2015-08-09 19:22 +0000
      Re: NASA buys $490 million CCCP  rides to ISS Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-09 21:45 +0200
        Re: NASA buys $490 million CCCP  rides to ISS John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-09 13:12 -0700
        Re: NASA buys $490 million CCCP  rides to ISS Emmerich Schultheiß <emme@noemail.thx> - 2015-08-09 20:44 +0000

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