To: GeronL
That’s one of the questions being pondered by NASA and Russian space experts following last week’s failure of an unmanned Russian cargo rocket. The U.S. fleet of space shuttles is retired and the Obama administration has no American alternative coming online for years
BTW, i think the private venture, Space-X, might have a Dragon vehicle ready to go in November to resupply the space station if need be IIRC. BTW, if I was NASA/Russia, I would just launch another Progress to keep them supplied up there, taking a risk that the failed launch was a fluke and just let the investigation of that launch go on.
21 posted on
09/22/2011 9:56:58 PM PDT by
Nowhere Man
(General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
To: Nowhere Man
good point, but do the Russians have another Progress (which I am sure NASA is paying for at this point) ready?
23 posted on
09/22/2011 10:06:27 PM PDT by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Nowhere Man
BTW, i think the private venture, Space-X, might have a Dragon vehicle ready to go in November to resupply the space station if need be IIRC. I expect that there will need to be a flight or 2 of the "Dragon" before it will be certified to rendezvous with & dock with the ISS.
42 posted on
09/23/2011 3:33:39 AM PDT by
Tallguy
(You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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