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A Russian spaceflyer was pulled from SpaceX's next astronaut mission for violating U.S. national security regulations, according to a media report.

This morning, The Insider reported that Artemyev, 54, was apparently removed from Crew 12 for violations of ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), a U.S. law that seeks to safeguard national security by restricting the dissemination of sensitive information and technology.

"The cosmonaut allegedly photographed SpaceX documentation and then 'used his phone' to export classified information," The Insider wrote (in Russian; translation by Google), citing the work of launch analyst Gregory Trishkin.

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[–] watson@lemmy.world 105 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Back in my day, we called this sort of person a “spy“

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The current administration prefers to call Russians who copy your secrets anything from "trusted partner" to "good friend", depending on the size of the bribe and/or the number of skeletons in the closet.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

I think they call them customers, to be honest.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I'm subscribed to his YouTube channel, the guy just likes to show off how cool space stuff is.

https://m.youtube.com/@OlegMKS/videos

[–] GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

ITAR is mostly horseshit and this is quite light on details. Seems like he probably photographed his launch vehicle somewhere prohibited and got busted

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank goodness. He might avoid getting blown up by Musk’s incompetence then.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What are you on about? Crew Dragon might be the most reliable ride to space ever.

All of SpaceX’s bullshit with Starship is completely separate from Dragon/Falcon9.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I’d say they probally represent a common perception of Musk and SpaceX these days. Not everyone has time to pay attention to everything they do, but lots of rocket explosions make headlines.

You’re not wrong, I’m just pointing out why the misperception is understandable, and probally common.