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Not really the best analogy; if that was the case, most of the world's ships would represent Panama.

Earth: Year 2066.

Two points; A) Atlas V also uses Russian engines, and that's about as close as any vehicle can be to being 'US-operated'. If US companies don't represent the US, then the US doesn't have any space capability. At all.

Have you considered that that's part of what they're doing? ISRO has launched plenty of earth observation and communications sats that directly aid the Indian economy, and they're outright selling launches for profit. They've started running into a problem where other expanding areas of the economy (mostly computing) are starting to eat into their supply of potential workers; hence, stuff like MOM. MOM is a tiny sideshow within even the ISRO budget, never mind the overall Indian government one.

KSP on android would be a terrible idea simply because of controls. You have to control engine throttle, roll, pitch, yaw, staging, RCS and SAS; do you seriously want to try that all on a touchscreen?

That needs conductive fluid; you'd have to turn the air to plasma in order for it to work. So, also not terribly refreshing.

Define 'fan'. If all you want is air movement, a pulsejet would do, although it wouldn't be very refreshing.

Never mind falcon anything, the first launcher built by a private company was Juno 1, all the way back in 1958. There's fundamentally no difference between spacex and convair, orbital, LM or any of the others apart from rhetoric.

That's not very helpful; most rockets are built by private companies.

USAF and NRO have plenty of signals interception sats; it doesn't make much sense for them to produce an expensive reusable system with a small payload rather than the inexpensive sats they're already using. I'd say the only thing that really makes sense given the amount of time taken on the trips so far is long-soak component testing.

Hydrogen peroxide motors are still superior in terms of Isp to solids. They were used very successfully by the british and .... german rocket programs.

Again, this isn't KSP. Nobody is proposing a rover as a first mission.

This isn't KSP or BARIS; sending something to Mars, with modern electronics, is a lot easier than sending people into orbit. India have already done with a launcher that could barely put up Vostok, never mind an actual useful craft like Soyuz or Shenzhou.

Proton is every bit as Russian as Angara; the problem is the launchsite. Proton can only launch from Baikonur in Khazakstan, which the Russians are planning stop using over the next few decades. It is being replaced by the Vostochny site in the Russian Far East, but the trip from factories in european Russia involves many bridges and tunnels, which Proton is simply too large to fit through. Angara's modular design allows smaller diameter parts to produce an equally capable rocket.

Youtube already does streaming anyway, they might just try to integrate it with that.

That's the space adventures proposal. Not talked about much in anglophone mass media is not the same as secret.

Space adventures now has the second passenger deposit down for their planned flyby using Soyuz. Whether they can actually afford to set up with the cash they have on hand is another matter, but at least that's somebody actively trying.

That's say much more about the shuttle than about saturn.

Getting space launch capability is hardly equivalent to having nuclear weapons capability; and as other people have noted, if they wanted ballistic missiles they'd just do what the Saudis did and buy from the Chinese.

Launch in 2017 is no longer necessary anyway, it was part of the requirement for emergency launch to ISS if CCDEV vehicles weren't ready.

To be perfectly honest, I've barely heard anything about the commonwealth games and I'm in the north of england. It's simply not a major event no matter where it is.

That's just a frankenstein of various rocket parts drawn up by some graphics designer; I imagine they don't have an actual design yet. Note it uses what looks like a Delta IV upper stage and what definitely is a Delta IV launchpad. As opposed to the situation now? Iran and Israel already have sat-launch capability, Pakistan has ICBMs, Saudi Arabia has IRBMs.

Given how long Nauka is taking, I'm not confident of their ability to actually have this stuff ready before ISS end-of-life.

'Health' is made up of millions of different traits, many of them only relevant in certain environments and plenty of which interfere with each other.

It's intended as a prototype for a full orbital spaceplane called PRIDE; effectively a smaller X-37, still launched on Vega.