To: A Navy Vet
Worth noting that SpaceX isn’t *completely* ready to take over yet - and the “emergency lifeboat” ship docked at the ISS in case the inhabitants have to evacuate is a Russian Soyuz, which gets rotated out for another on a regular basis. The Soyuz is old enough and tested enough that the things can be left up there on an extended basis. Dragon hasn’t been certified to do that.
21 posted on
03/04/2022 1:02:04 PM PST by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Spktyr
Fair enough, but watch civilian spacecraft that are the future. Musk has proven it with his return boosters that can land on a floating platform and be re-used. I thought I was looking at a sci-fi movie when I first saw it.
Plus, there are many more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies
27 posted on
03/04/2022 1:28:28 PM PST by
A Navy Vet
(USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
To: Spktyr
I wonder how tense things are on the ISS about now. 4 US crew, 1 German, 2 Russians. Soviet Soyuz scheduled to head up there in about a month, I think?
It’d be grand if we could get a cosmonaut to defect!
36 posted on
03/04/2022 2:39:19 PM PST by
Paul R.
(You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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