The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has begun to affect space studies in recent weeks. The fight between Russia, the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA is escalating. Finally, there was an argument between the Russian space chief and the former NASA astronaut.
President of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, who said that the International Space Station could fall to Europe or the USA without Russia, and that it will no longer sell rocket engines to the USA, is now on the agenda with insulting the former NASA astronaut.
What did the Russian space chief say about the NASA astronaut?
Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly exchanged statements with the director of Roscosmos on Twitter. Kelly, who is one of the harshest critics of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, seems to have angered his former Russian partners with his statements.
Aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015 and 2016 The former astronaut, who holds the record for the longest space flight in the USA with almost a full year, has started sharing tweets in Russian since February 27. He also changed his profile picture to a yellow-blue punch, which are the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
In the video that appeared last week, it was seen that the US and Japanese flags were raised on the Russian rocket. The former astronaut, who shared this video by tagging Rogozin, made very harsh statements:
“Without these flags and the currency they brought, your space program would not be worth a single egg. If there are still McDonalds in Russia, you can get yourself a job at McDonalds.”
Garrett Reisman, another retired NASA astronaut, tweeted in Russian to say that Rogozin was always “stupid”.
The Russian space chief, angered by Kelly and Reisman’s statements, said, “Get out. stupid! Otherwise, the death of the ISS will be on you,” he said. However, we cannot verify the validity of the screenshot shared by Kelly, as the tweet has already been deleted and does not appear in the web archive.
Former NASA astronaut, who could not understand why the tweet was deleted, said in his statement, “Dimon, why did you delete this tweet? Don’t you want everyone to see what kind of kid you really are?” said.
Russia’s space chief, on the other hand, used the following expressions without referring to his old tweet:
“Mr. Scott Kelly! You are unnecessarily provoking me. I won’t let you treat me like that. You are defiant and destructive. Maybe the dementia and aggression you develop are the result of the overload and stress of four flights into space. I invite you for examination at the Federal Institute of Medicine and the Brain.”
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