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For Want Of A Soyuz

Posted by timothy on from the encapsulation dept.

sckienle writes "MSNBC has an article starting "Missions to the international space station may have to be suspended because Russia cannot afford to build new craft to carry crews there...." This is a problem because a Soyuz capsule must be attached to the ISS for emergency evacuation. The problem is further complicated because any one Soyuz capsule can only be docked to the ISS for 6 months maximum. Nor are they and their boosters built for reuse. The CNN version of the information is here. I guess we need to find more billionaires to take the space vacation. How about it Mr. Gates?"

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  1. How about it Mr. Gates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How about it Mr. Gates?"

    Oh jesus christ, you want it to crash or something?

  2. Yeah by RedWolves2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah Mr. Gates it is a space ship ;-) it is not a missle ;-). Trust us.

  3. Gates in space by PDX · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know if getting him excited about space travel is such a hot idea. Isn't this sort of how the Borg got started?