i wonder about other ventures like fusion and other scientific projects
the space stn is tricky
On Mar 22, 2014, at 7:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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> Well Russia has positioned snipers at all critical junctions in
> the space station. :) and has used women astronauts as shields
> to overtake various positions such as the command centre and
> docking hatches and airlocks.
>
> On the serious side, the space station is totally dependent
> on Russian Soyuz capsules. SpaceX is probably 1 to 3
> years away from certifying their 7 man space capsule (Dragon).
> It has already been in space.
>
> That is the dragon space capsule. It has already been used
> in unmanned configuration to resupply the space station in 2012
> and again in 2013.
>
> http://www.spacex.com/dragon
>
> It's next resupply mission is to occur on March 30th 2014.
>
> http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/03/11/upcoming-mission-falcon-9-and-dragon-launching-space-station
>
> Unfortunately they still have to rely on the Russians to send
> up and retrieve astronauts.
>
> Then the Chinese have a proven sattellite killer missle that
> could take out the entire station.
>
>
> Michael Kulyk wrote:
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>> how will putin's actions affect space stn and other ventures usa and =
>> russia are involved in?=
>>
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