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NASA: Space station may be evacuated by late Nov.
AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 29 August 2011 | Marcia Dunn

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nasa; obama; spaceshuttle
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To: Talisker
Good one... lol

Latest on Comet Elenin making the rounds at the conspiracy sites: Comet Elenin Forecast for 9/2011 to 1/2012 and the Hopi Blue Star Kachina

61 posted on 08/29/2011 12:39:19 PM PDT by Errant
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To: youngidiot
I guess you don't believe in basic scientific research, practicing of construction techniques, study of long term human duration in weightlessness, pharmaceutical research, metallurgy...

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:

ISS Experiment List

62 posted on 08/29/2011 12:41:38 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: youngidiot
So, no then? Can't tell us how it's been useful? I stand by my original statement. It's been a gargantuan waste of money.

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?

63 posted on 08/29/2011 12:56:43 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
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To: Errant
Good one... lol ... Latest on Comet Elenin making the rounds at the conspiracy sites: Comet Elenin Forecast for 9/2011 to 1/2012 and the Hopi Blue Star Kachina

(that's the girl)

LOL

64 posted on 08/29/2011 1:05:53 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: Talisker

Yep ;)


65 posted on 08/29/2011 1:12:23 PM PDT by Errant
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To: NonZeroSum; buccaneer81

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.


66 posted on 08/29/2011 1:18:54 PM PDT by youngidiot (Hear Hear!)
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To: SoJoCo

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.


67 posted on 08/29/2011 6:19:02 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain 5 yrs Left/1 yr right "BAD!" - Republicans 3 yrs Right 1 year Left to elect RINOs. "Good?")
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To: Mr. K
"But at least NASA has a great new mission of Muslim Outreach (thanks to Barack HUSSEIN Obama)"

This IS an Islamic teaching. nothing can be learned other that was Mohammad said.

68 posted on 08/29/2011 7:34:11 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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