Russia considering unmanned space station (after supply ship blows up)

Telegraph ^ | 8/31/11

[GraceG]

Skylab = Carter

ISS = Obama

Welcome back Carter!

[ArrogantBustard]

There are also plans on the drawing board for nuclear rockets that are feasible

This is a reference to propulsion.

NASA just launched a solar powered craft to Jupiter, where only nuclear powered craft have gone before.

This is a reference to payload power supply.

Nothing quite like comparing apples to atom bombs ...

[jmcenanly]

Do you mean like this one?

[VaRepublican]

10-4 however what do your wife and kids think, considering the massive backing of the USA. Wait, oops, delete that....

[VaRepublican]

and by massive support I'm referring to to the massive layoffs coming to NASA. lord knows that private industry has this under control in the next 15 years. NASA was a grand project.

[GAB-1955]

That piece of bureaucratic junk killed two crews. No thanks. Better ships are coming off the assembly line at Space X, Boeing, and Orbital Sciences.

[Moonman62]

This is a reference to propulsion. This is a reference to payload power supply.

You're right on both counts, however the point is NASA has an inability to make a correct decision (nuclear or solar) when their priorities are all out of whack, or when they are being micromanaged by politicians.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Libloather.

[JRios1968]

Considering that, right now, we have NOTHING ready to supply that $100B hole in space...

[GAB-1955]

Wait four months.

[JRios1968]

Who’s going to be at the ISS then?

[GAB-1955]

That’s when Dragon does its unmanned and automatic approach test.

[JRios1968]

Which still leaves the issue of how to access and re-activate systems

[GAB-1955]

It can be done. It’s been done before by both the U.S. and Russia.