Russia angers the world with space station war propaganda 📝: jeffreykluger
t was only eight years ago that German space station astronaut Alexander Gerst threatened, as he put it, to kick his crewmate’s butt. The butt in question belonged to American astronaut Reid Wiseman and the kicking, happily, would be administered only by proxy. It was June 26, 2014 and the U.S. and Germany were about to face off in the World Cup. Gerst’s playful taunt wasin a press release headlined, “Friendly Rivalry Pits U.S. vs. German Astronauts on Space Station.
Or at least they were. Yesterday that comity broke down after the three Russian cosmonauts aboard the station posed for pictures holding the flags of the ostensibly free Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic, two regions in eastern Ukraine that Russia has seized and, to hear the Kremlin tell it, liberated. NASA was having none of it.
Those, in the delicate parlance of space station diplomacy, were fighting words. It was 55 years ago that the U.S., Russia, and other nations signed the celebrated “
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