Space station evacuation

[DrLeftover]

Our government's plan for relying on Russia after retiring the Shuttle without any vehicle capable of human launch in the fleet just went to hell.



http://www.space.com/12767-astronauts-space-station-evacuation-nasa.html

 

[Evil Eye]

...More like it went to heaven.



Bad jokes aside, what if they don't fix it? Getting stuck in space would be kinda crappy.

 

[DrLeftover]

The best and brightest available to the Space Administration of the United States of America are preparing us to lose... how much? ... because they couldn't pull a rocket out of their ass before they mothballed the thirty year old shuttle.

WASHINGTON — The possible first-ever evacuation of the International Space Station, if a Russian spacecraft is not launched in November, would risk the loss of the orbiting lab, a NASA official has warned.



There is a greater risk of losing the ISS when it's unmanned than if it were manned, Michael Suffredini, the ISS program manager for the US space agency, said on a conference call with reporters.



The risk increase is not insignificant, he added.



Russia on Monday delayed its next manned Soyuz spacecraft mission to the ISS by at least a month after an unmanned cargo vessel using a similar rocket crashed into Siberia instead of reaching orbit on August 24.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/af...ocId=CNG.9e34c99182f5659a398b65217766ca17.b31