For about five years America is going to depend on the Russians for access to the Space Station. Suppose because of happenings in Georgia the Russians decline to do their part?
"The new challenge we have is that for approximately five years, the plan -- which is a very bad plan but is the only plan that NASA and the administration and Congress have approved -- is to be dependent on the Russian Soyuz vehicle to get people to and from the international space station," said Tom Feeney, (R-FL). "And so now, with the political realities with Russia invading Georgia, we have a new wrinkle thrown in."
Tom Feeney is right. It is a very bad plan. So what can be done?
Full speed ahead with private efforts to get into space in the same way the US Government sponsored air mail contracts to get the fledgling aircraft industry off the ground.
How about a competition to get private industry to supply the space station?
Yeah, Fat Guy, those grapes were probably sour anyway...
Your attitude is an incomprehensible to me as the sizable chunk of sci-fi fans who were opposed to Bush's plans for going back to the Moon and on to Mars. They started dragging out the same excuses that Mundanes use when the subject comes up: Too expensive, too much needs fixing dirtside before we start moving out, too dangerous, yadda, yadda, yadda... Worse example of BDS I've ever seen, but at least they had that excuse. "We didn't do it then, so now we never should do it, because we don't deserve to"? That's just pathetic. I hope you don't apply that attitude to your social life...
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
Don?t bang your head!
I disagree. We could have had this: http://manconquersspace.com/downloads/movies/MCS_TeaserIII_1280.mov but we chose not to have it because we're rotten. We don't deserve it. Let's just forget about it and watch American Idol.