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2018-10-12 Science & Technology
NASA ready to leave ISS crew-less if Soyuz not cleared by 2019
[RT] NASA officials have said that the International Space Station (ISS) could be left unmanned after a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was forced to make an emergency landing when its rocket booster malfunctioned.

The Soyuz rocket launched on Thursday was due to deliver cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and astronaut Nick Hague to the station. The current ISS crew of three people is due to return to earth before January 4, when the Soyuz docked at the space station reaches the end of its safe return lifespan.

A full article at SpaceNews dot com
SpaceX current has at the cape: 1) Three FULLY TESTED and READY TO FLY First Stages, 2) A unknown number > 1 Second Stages and 3)The SpaceX manned flight test capsule ready to go since August. Suggest 1) Shoot up empty now and dock it for emergency egress if the Soyuz fails or 2) Load it with the Paper Work Managers of NASA's for Dragon 2 and launch it to ISS. If it fails the managers can die knowing they were right.
If they don't die then it passes.
Posted by Fred 2018-10-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 Remember how the ISS was supposed to improve relations between the US and Russia? How's that working out these days?
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-10-12 06:36||   2018-10-12 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Gonna be overrun with space mice and spiders.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-12 09:59||   2018-10-12 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Why not sell it to the Chinese or India? Advertise it as an orbital weapons platform.
Posted by jpal 2018-10-12 11:26||   2018-10-12 11:26|| Front Page Top

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