A Brief History of the Space Station

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A Brief History of the Space Station

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 4, 2004 @01:34AM from the built-by-the-lowest-bidders dept.

HyperbolicParabaloid writes "A story about the history of the International Space Station, and its utility or non-utility for space exploration. One interesting insight: after the Challenger explosion it became obvious that we would never refuel a rocket with volatile fuel at a space station because the threat to the station would be so great. And did you know that to accomodate the Russians, the space station is in an orbit that makes it almost useless as a jumping off point to anywhere?"

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fp! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-04 01:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

mmmmm, frosty pist!
First Post by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-04 01:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First Post!
Re:Hooknose by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-04 01:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

to which melody?
DEAR MICHAEL. by Michael's+Mommy · 2004-02-04 01:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Please clean up your mess from the keyboard when you're done.

You jerk.
Interesting question about men in space by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-04 01:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

How do they shit in space? Do they masturbate also or do they live in selibate?
Terminal velocity by rcs1000 · 2004-02-04 02:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic

OK. I have a question, that is sort of related, to this space shuttle issue.

What is terminal velocity? I mean, what is the concept?

If I put up a very tall ladder that reached all the way too... ohhh... low earth orbit, and walked up it, then surely I would manage it without ever reaching terminal velocity.

Help required please!

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--- My dad's political betting
An abridged brief history of the space station MIR by brad-d · 2004-02-04 02:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Once upon a time there was a space station called MIR. Then one day a wise man said "What goes up must come down!"; and thus ends our brief history of the space station MIR.
Thanks for watching.

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-Brad
Re:Full Text (For the NYT tinfoil hat crew) by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-04 02:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This is a copyright violation and will cease to be tolerated in the future. In the meantime you lower the entrance barrier for companies which turn the web into a mass media delivery channel and unnecessarily trample on our privacy. You're doing the "tinfoil hat crew" a tremendous disservice, both by reducing the motives to paranoia and by attenuating the deserved rejection of "free registration required" "services".
A waste of money? by nordicfrost · 2004-02-04 02:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

From the article:
the station has suddenly become a $100 billion dead end.

It's certainly much better than other ~$100 billion dead ends.
Re:WHITE HOUSE FIRES BACK OVER BUSH AWOL ACCUSATIO by AndyRooney · 2004-02-04 02:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I will fight your SCIENCE with WOOD, Robocop!
Re:Why work on GNOME when Motif was doing just fin by ianezz · 2004-02-04 06:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Just s/GNOME/Gimp/g, and that's what's actually happened (except that The Gimp is quite useful).
Early versions of The Gimp were Motif-based (and useful enough to draw Tux), then people decided to write their own Motif replacement, and thus GTK was born.
Seig Heil! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-04 06:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Die Juden Mussen Sterben!