Shuttle delayed another year

Yesterdays news said it mght be another year. Just how will that impact ISS
resupply?

Hallerb wrote in message
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Yesterdays news said it mght be another year. Just how will that
impact ISS
resupply?

And people say there are no stupid questions?

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"Hallerb" wrote in message
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Yesterdays news said it mght be another year. Just how will that impact
ISS
resupply?

The FBI will simply surround them and then starve them out.

R.

tscottme wrote:

And people say there are no stupid questions?

southpark
"Remember, children: there are no stupid questions, only stupid people."
/southpark

Paul

tscottme wrote:
Yesterdays news said it mght be another year. Just how will that
impact ISS
resupply?

And people say there are no stupid questions?

Why would you think this was a stupid question ?

Do you know for a fact that :
1- current Progress resupply rates do not result in ANY depletion of spare
consumables aboard the station ?

2-Is progress' current rate capable of bringing slightly more than what is
necessary in order to slowly restock the spare consumables that have been
consumed since Feb 1 ?

3-Have the russians actually increased the number of progress and soyuz
rockets being produced to allow for increased launch frequency, or have they
simply accelerated completion of the current batch already in the pipeline so
they could launch earlier ?

If you have 5 progress vehicles in the pipeline, originally destined to span
15 months in space, but you then decide to quicken completion so that you can
launch them in a period of 12 months, it does give you 5 progress vehicles in
one year. But instead of 4 the next year, you're only going to have 3 that
will be ready. That might be fine when you expect the shuttle to return which
could easily fill the gap left by one missing progress. But if the shuttle
doesn't return, then that gap becomes too important to ignore.

So IF the shuttle is truly grounded until end of 2004 or early 2005, this
would likely require the russians to actually dish out real money to produce
extra progress vehicles. So far, it seems that they only played scheduling
tricks to allow progress to launch slighly closer to each other.

And of course, there is the hard question: given real money, can the russians
significantly reduce the construction time for progress in order to raise the
launch frequency by one per year ?

"tscottme" writes:
Hallerb wrote in message
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Yesterdays news said it mght be another year. Just how will that
impact ISS
resupply?

And people say there are no stupid questions?

That's Bob for you, pointing out on one hand that NASA needs to
seriously work on safety while on the other trying to hurry them up
and launch the shuttle before ISS runs into supply problems (everyone,
including Bob, knows that the Russians are hard pressed to increase
the Progress flight rate).

Bob would make a good bureaucrat. Always ready to spread the blame
around when something goes wrong. ;-)

Jeff
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