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Old April 19th 04, 06:36 PM
JimO
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Any progress on NASA's studying
the Russian proposal for the next ISS
crew to stay up for 12 months?

From what i can hear, there's
a major internal debate over this
idea -- go for it, or be cautious.



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Old April 20th 04, 01:47 AM
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On or about Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:36:59 GMT, JimO
made the sensational claim that:
From what i can hear, there's
a major internal debate over this
idea -- go for it, or be cautious.


I would have thought the 'debate' would be about how best to delude themselves
into believing this is a 'good NASA idea' as opposed to kissing russian ass yet
again.
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Old April 20th 04, 01:11 PM
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"Doug..." wrote in
Well, the issue has apparently been decided. NASA turned thumbs-down to
the plan, according to a variety of sources.


"A variety of sources" means my article on msnbc.com, and NASA PAO's
tacky response: I called them yesterday noon for confirmation of what I had
learend re the April 6 Kostelnik memo, and before I got their answer,
they had emailed out a statement to two dozen other space journalists
with the information that I had shaken loose (no mention of me).
Fortunately, I had
not let their delays slow down posting our msnbc.com article first. Now they
say
their mass mailing was just in response to long-standing interest expressed
by
these newsmen from an earlier press conference -- but the Kostelnik memo was
sent
on April 6, and it wasn't until April 19, two hours after MY fact-check
inquiry,
that they sent out the news about it. I believe in cause-and-effect, not
mere
coincidence, in this case.


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Old April 30th 04, 09:00 PM
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What a lot of you guys seem to be forgetting is that Russia has the keys to
the car ..... Takes two 'yes' votes to get the cat out of the tree, too.
All Russia has to do is twiddle their thumbs and it becomes a year stay.
Kim

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"Doug..." wrote in
Well, the issue has apparently been decided. NASA turned thumbs-down

to
the plan, according to a variety of sources.




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Old April 21st 04, 03:37 AM
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Jim - If you can, find out how many Soyuz are in inventory and how many
are in work....and their completion dates. I have a hunch that they are
low on vehicles. Thx.


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Old April 21st 04, 08:56 PM
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There are none in reserve, but the pipeline -- about 30 to 36 months from
'laying the keel' to launch,
is full of enough vehicles to launch at the current rate indefinitely.



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Jim - If you can, find out how many Soyuz are in inventory and how many
are in work....and their completion dates. I have a hunch that they are
low on vehicles. Thx.




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Old April 20th 04, 02:38 PM
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"JimO" writes:

Any progress on NASA's studying
the Russian proposal for the next ISS
crew to stay up for 12 months?

From what i can hear, there's
a major internal debate over this
idea -- go for it, or be cautious.


I find some of the comments (in your article) by NASA astronauts very
disturbing. They make it sound like they wouldn't consider taking
that long of a mission. If that's the case, perhaps NASA needs to
"clean house" very soon. If we aren't flying astronauts now that are
willing to perform long duration missions, how do we ever expect to
get to Mars?

If there really are medical issues with flights this long, wouldn't it
be prudent to find out about them a.s.a.p.? If this does turn out to
be the case, the solution could be an engineering one. You split your
ship into two parts, separated by a long cable, and spin the thing for
the trip to and from Mars. If it turns out such a solution is
necessary, it would be nice to know about this as far in advance as
possible so prototype designs can be built and tested in LEO.

Jeff
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