Posted on 08/29/2011 9:27:48 AM PDT by magellan
NASA says astronauts may need to abandon the International Space Station this fall.
If Russian Soyuz rockets remain grounded beyond mid-November, there will be no way to launch new crews before the current residents are supposed to leave.
A Russian supply ship was destroyed during liftoff last week. The rocket is similar to what's used to launch astronauts.
NASA space station program manager Mike Suffredini said Monday that flight controllers could keep a deserted space station operating indefinitely.
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Being a Luddite is a sad way to go through life. NASA's ENTIRE budget was 0.043% of the US federal budget.
Here... Educate yourself:
You seem determined to double down on your screen name. How can something be useful before it's completed? Do you have any idea what a stupid question this is?
(that's the girl)
LOL
Yep ;)
I suppose we’ll see. We shot the first piece of that thing up nearly 13 years ago. And now all of this time and money later, all we can do is wait and see. Sounds fantastic.
Look, I have no problem with that basic concept. Unfortunately NASA bogarted the funding until everything else had expired or had funds cut off.
Now we’re stuck with a space station we paid 80 to 90% of the cost for, that we named the international space station, and then failed to manage a way for it to be serviced into the future.
This abandonment is only supposed to be temporary, but it is none the less infuriating.
Now in 2011, NASA has gotten religion. The only thing is, it didn’t really get religion. This is planned obsolescence.
Bush, Obama, and NASA played into this. Both sides in Congress did too.
I’m angry about this. This is such clear malfeasance, and yet nothing will be done about it.
With the leadership we have today, we clearly don’t deserve to be in charge of much on this planet. It’s embarrassing to admit we’re the United States, today the biggest clowns on planet earth.
This IS an Islamic teaching. nothing can be learned other that was Mohammad said.
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