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Russia Working on Soyuz Replacement

Buran writes "The Associated Press is reporting that RKK Energia is starting design work on a new manned spacecraft able to carry a crew of six (or more) to the International Space Station. The vehicle may have a reusable crew module (current Soyuz TMA and Progress vehicles are disposable) and would theoretically finally allow ISS crew size to increase, as the current limiting factor is the capacity of the Soyuz spacecraft, designed in the early 1960s for manned lunar flights. (While Soyuz never flew to the Moon, its Zond circumlunar variant did so several times, and Soyuz and Progress craft have been resupplying various space stations for over three decades.) It will be interesting to see how this develops, as at present ISS crews spend more time maintaining the station than they do performing research, due to the fact that the station wasn't designed to operate with a crew as small as two or three people."

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  1. FIRST POST!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. beego ogeeb by beego+ogeeb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    SOSOSOSO, what did you say?

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  3. Re:ok, here goes nothing.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Wind Beneath My Wings by AoT · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did I ever tell you you're my hero?

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  5. Re:ok, here goes nothing.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This....

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  6. Free Software Democracy by Stallmanite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, for one, am tired of everyone comparing Free Software to Communism. Windows World - Central control: a tyranny GNU+linux - Distributed control: a democracy. Its as simple as that.

  7. Re:ok, here goes nothing.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. Re:ok, here goes nothing.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMG OMG OMG just to set the record straight, if you are so cool WHY NOT POST without AC??? I am only AC because I'm on my EX-BOYFRIEND's computer and don't have my password and don't want to log him out. You probably don't even have an ex-girlfriend, you are so disgusting. Maybe you have an ex-boyfriend, though, I guess somebody as asexual and nauseating like u may be gay and just don't know it so you become such a disgusting person because you can't cope with it!!! I read about you in my abnormal psychology class, and I smelled you in my biology class. Peace, have a good life, NOTTTTT!!!!!!!!

    better things to do,

    cyndi

  9. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's not a mirror; he just linked directly to the original article. Pay attention when you get mod points.

  10. Re:ok, here goes nothing.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMG I AM SO DONE with you. I will not even use this dumb message board again, what is the point when there are such morons around? I see that there is a "moderation system" or something, so if anybody has any sense, PLEASE mod this up so people can see what a LOSER this guy is. Don't even mod him down, just let people read how stupid he is, I don't even need to post, he just makes himself sound like a loser on his own!!! Grow up, you are such a gay little boy.

    cheers,

    cyndi

  11. Re:ok, here goes nothing.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  13. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Hognoxious · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    hell, someone had to do it...
    It was nearly me, but luckily you were a bit quicker and took the hit from some newless cluebie who inexplicably got mod points and doesn't understand what "Offtopic" means.
    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  14. Re:I bet they do it, too... by thursdays · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    keeping things simple heh?

    like the pencil Vs the pen that can write upside down NASA spend millions inventing?

    personaly i want a pen that can write in zero gravity or under water. here is a real idea. make it non-refillable so ppl will have to buy tons of them or just not use it.

  15. In Soviet Russia.. by vogt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia Soyuz fly you!

  16. In Soviet Russia... by Cantus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, Soyuz replaces you!

  17. Re:In soviet russia... by Jackdaw+Rookery · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What? How's this modded as funny?! 'In Russia ... ' jokes died ages ago and are only funny in a parody of themselves now.

    This one is dire. Oh man, anything can get modded as funny if this can. /me dances like a monkey on crack and prods the quotation engine with the finglonger;

    Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation -- Oscar Wilde

    The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley

    It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. -- Sir Winston Churchill

    A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool. -- Colette

  18. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Jackdaw+Rookery · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey you, leave that dead horse alone. I can see you there, yes you! Back away, right away, that's right.

    Now promise to leave it alone, no more dead horse fun for you, mister.

  19. MOD PARENT USEFUL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    looks good to me

  20. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod this idiot down. Just read the end of his message.

  21. Re:The problem with the ISS by Firethorn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The US is scared about many of the countries getting WMD because they don't necessarily care about their own continued existence more than the destruction of the USA. MAD worked with the USSR because, ultimately, the USSR cared less about the existence of the USA than their own existence.

    There are factions in, say, Iran, that would happily give nukes to terrorist networks, even in the face of us possibly carpet-nuking the country. That's what we're scared of.

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    I don't read AC A human right
  22. In Soviet Russia..... by Darth23 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Soyuz working to replace Russia.

    Well somebody had to say it.

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    -------- In Soviet Russia, "Soviet Russia" sigs hate Slashdot.

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      .. somebody did. Several times!
      Arg!

    2. Re:In Soviet Russia..... by Darth23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That's because Yakov Smirnoff Nostalgia Fever is kicking in now.

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      -------- In Soviet Russia, "Soviet Russia" sigs hate Slashdot.

  23. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Darth23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Sorry I didn't mean to infringe on your copyright:

    Same Joke (basically)

    Damn, same comment after smar-alec remark even. I think this Yakov Smirnoff Revival thing is really starting to take off.

    --

    -------- In Soviet Russia, "Soviet Russia" sigs hate Slashdot.

  24. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Hognoxious · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It was nearly me, but luckily you were a bit quicker and took the hit from some newless cluebie who inexplicably got mod points and doesn't understand what "Offtopic" means.
    Ge33ktastic! I am, like *SO* 0wn3d! Yet another spotty softcock d0rk gets mod points! Bet you'd trade 'em all to t4lk to a 91rl, right?

    LAMER, LAMER, NA NA NAH!

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."