ISS Flight Engineer: Bringing China and India into Partnership Would be Mutually Beneficial
International Space Station
A brief note from the Roscosmos PAO website:
The number of the International Space Station program participants may be enlarged by adding China and India, ISS flight engineer Fiodor Urchikhin said answering the question from the ISS Mail Box. The Mail Box is the project by Memorial Space Museum supported by Roscosmos PAO and Moscow’s Department of Culture.
“I am sure that partnership with China and India would be mutually beneficial in the programâ€, Urchikhin said, Interfax AVN informs.
“Chinese achievements in human space missions are well-known. A Chinese module in the ISS? It is not a fantasy, provided that all parties agree with is”, Yurchikhin believes. “But I am against thoughtless involvement; interesting ideas, technologies shall be involved in the programâ€.
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This idea of bringing in more nations looks like its gaining more and more ground in Europe and Russia. I hope the US begins promoting this as well in the near future.
All this assumes that China and India *want* to be in on this. China’s dropped no hints on this that I’m aware of (and several hints that it wants to do its own station), and India won’t have a manned space capacity before 2015-2017, anyway.,,