Looks like that might happen. Only ‘temporarily,’ of course.
Astronauts may need to temporarily withdraw from the International Space Station before the end of this year if Russia is unable to resume manned flights of its Soyuz rocket after a failed cargo launch last week, according to the NASA official in charge of the outpost.
Mind you, ‘temporarily’ in bureaucrat-speak means ‘a unit of time ranging from the sound of the beep [beep!] to five minutes before the end of time…’
Via Glenn Reynolds.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
PS: Hey, do you know what 787 billion dollars could have bought us in 2009? A functional manned space program! Then we and the ISS wouldn’t be dependent on the Russians’ ability to launch rockets that don’t blow up! No, wait, forgot: Texas, Alabama, and Florida won’t be voting Democratic in the next Presidential election. Never mind…
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The Russians will demand "payments"
izoneguy (Diary) Monday, August 29th at 11:51AM EDT (link)To keep the ISS going….
Nice space station you helped build – it would be a shame if sumtin where to happen to it……
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Refresh my memory. The original NASA moon shot paid dividends...
acat (Diary) Monday, August 29th at 11:54AM EDT (link)in terms of tech developed specifically for Apollo that had civilian applications.
Just what benefit is coming in from the ISS?
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Money spent on it...
Moe Lane (Diary) Monday, August 29th at 2:06PM EDT (link)…isn’t being spent on Obamacare?
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The ISS: 160 billion dollars
MuskegonCritic Tuesday, August 30th at 12:01AM EDT (link)Keeping ex-Soviet nuclear engineers employed: Priceless.
With little to no scientific purpose
Christian Tuesday, August 30th at 8:11AM EDT (link)Long past time to crash it into the Pacific. NASA should focus on its planetary probes and space telescopes instead – they give us 1000 times more bang for the buck.
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