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Energiya Pushes For A 6-Person Space Capsule

Posted by timothy on from the isn't-funded-'til-it's-funded dept.

voss writes "Apparently the Russians want to build their own reusable capsule called the Clipper that can be used up to 25 times and can fit 6 people. They also say they can build their ship in 5 years. The key here is if they can get the funding. The shuttle will be retired in 2010 and with no credible replacement on the horizon...why doesn't NASA give the Russians a chance?"

3 of 391 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why not give the russians a chance? by The+Snowman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can think of a LOT of reasons.

    Such as...?

    The first thing that comes to my mind is that while Russia is now a democracy, they are still communist. Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his... oh, he is still technically alive? Crap.

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  2. No, I don't have a girlfriend by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but I am going to try that on the next female I come in contact with.

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  3. Re:Race for Mars? by eille-la · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    dont expect better moderating from slashdot users. slashdot also have his own crowd of "joe sixpack" average which is of course not the same as the one of a country, but it still exist (in majority!). i cant exactly describe how the popular slashdot "joe" moderate here, but the mod points wont be given with a total and deep (scientific) analysis of the post each time the Moderate button is pushed. for some heavier discutions you should visit something like kuro5hin.org (which i dont really well know), just a suggestion.

    something frustrating with slashdot is the non-scientific zealotry about things that are so much scientific themselves. programming languages for example. there was a story this week who bringed many discution about which programming language was for what. there was some post who explained really well the situations and they merited their score of 5. but many other 5 modded posts were really badly overrrated. thats bad.

    i think about a site who could make an inteligent and relatively neutral synthesis of important slashdot discutions, which slashdot story themselves could link once the story became read-only mode. a kind of strongly modetared and monitored WIKI of post discutions.