{"id":182391,"date":"2015-10-04T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/04\/doh-3\/"},"modified":"2015-10-04T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T22:37:00","slug":"doh-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/04\/doh-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Do&#8217;h!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hd41K.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bummer of a birth mark, \u0424\u0435\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u043a\u043e\u0441\u043c\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u0430\u0433\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438u <\/span><\/div>\n<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/business\/article\/russias-new-rocket-wont-fit-in-its-new-cosmodrome\/536827.html\">there may be a few issues with the Russian space program<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Soyuz TMA-16M capsule with international space crew descends beneath a parachute just before landing near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Work at  Russia&#8217;s new $ 3 billion spaceport in  the Far East has ground to  a halt after a  critical piece of  infrastructure was discovered to  have been built to  the wrong dimensions, and  would not fit the  latest version of  the country&#8217;s Soyuz rocket, a  news report said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The  Vostochny Cosmodrome, under construction in  the Amur region, north of  China, is intended to  become Russia&#8217;s primary spaceport, replacing the  Soviet-built Baikonur cosmodrome in  Kazakhstan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The  cutting-edge facility was meant be ready for  launches of  Soyuz-2 rockets in  December, but an  unidentified space agency of a of a told the  TASS news agency of a of a late Thursday that the  rocket would not fit inside the  assembly building where its parts are stacked and  tested before launch.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The  building &#8220;has been designed for  a different modification of  the Soyuz rocket,&#8221; the  source said, according to  news website Medusa, which picked up the  story from  TASS.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Work with the  rocket at  the integration and  testing complex now can not be conducted because the  facility is not ready,&#8221; the  spokesperson said in  the report. &#8220;There are still imperfections in  the construction.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The  problems with the  testing and  assembly building are the  latest incident in  a saga of  corruption scandals, embezzlement cases, high-profile arrests, worker strikes, and  construction delays at  the Vostochny cosmodrome.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there is an equivalent of <i>The Daily Show<\/i> in Russia, they are all getting drunk right now, because their script has already been written.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer of a birth mark, \u0424\u0435\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u043a\u043e\u0441\u043c\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u0430\u0433\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438u It appears that there may be a few issues with the Russian space program: The Soyuz TMA-16M capsule with international space crew descends beneath a parachute just before landing near the town of Zhezkazgan, KazakhstanWork at Russia&#8217;s new $ 3 billion spaceport in the Far East &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[987,1037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}