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Russian Supply Ship Docks At ISS
CryptoJoe writes "Space.com and CNN report a successful docking between the Russian-built cargo ship Progress 16 and the International Space Station (ISS). NASA had indicated that a failure of Progress 16 would lead to the evacuation of the ISS because food supplies are critically low."
remember the shuttle burning up? Thats a major cause to why the supplies ever got that low in the first place.
nasa grounded all shuttle flights if you remember, and relied on the russians to send things up there.
I'm sick of people not seeing the good science that is being done by NASA as it is. Just because it may be more science-fictiony to go to the moon doesn't make it more valuable. We will go to mars (which would be alot more benificial than going to the moon) in good time. Until then let's work on the ISS.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
If this is how we are going to do it, we should not be doing it. We should either commit the resources to do the project correctly or we move on to other needs.
Are you talking about the ISS or are you talking about the space shuttle?
Because the critical design flaw in the space shuttle, which has resulted in the grounding of the fleet, was NOT part of the plan.
But in the real world you overcome problems when they occur. If everyone always gave up and moved on to "other needs" at the slightest hickup, we would always be moving on the other needs without ever satisfying any of them.
Space travel is dangerous. No one is putting a gun to those astronauts' heads.
No one has a right to their *own* opinion. They have a right to the TRUTH.