NASA Statement on Success of Russian Progress Launch

In article ,
says...

"We congratulate our Russian colleagues on Sunday's successful launch
of ISS Progress 45, and the spacecraft is on its way to the
International Space Station. Pending the outcome of a series of
flight readiness meetings in the coming weeks, this successful flight
sets the stage for the next Soyuz launch, planned for mid-November.
The December Soyuz mission will restore the space station crew size
to six and continue normal crew rotations."

Sounds like the Russians have the Soyuz launch vehicle up and running
again.

Jeff
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Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

"We congratulate our Russian colleagues on Sunday's successful
launch of ISS Progress 45, and the spacecraft is on its way to the
International Space Station. Pending the outcome of a series of
flight readiness meetings in the coming weeks, this successful
flight sets the stage for the next Soyuz launch, planned for
mid-November. The December Soyuz mission will restore the space
station crew size to six and continue normal crew rotations."

Sounds like the Russians have the Soyuz launch vehicle up and running
again.

Unless SpaceX had some desire to play "schedule chicken" with the
Russians restarting Soyuz, I suspect Elon Musk is about as pleased as
anyone concerning this recent development. A depopulated ISS would
have meant no Dragon COTS Flight 2/3 (merged).

rick jones
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On 10/31/2011 04:45 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
Jeff wrote:
In ,
says...

"We congratulate our Russian colleagues on Sunday's successful
launch of ISS Progress 45, and the spacecraft is on its way to the
International Space Station. Pending the outcome of a series of
flight readiness meetings in the coming weeks, this successful
flight sets the stage for the next Soyuz launch, planned for
mid-November. The December Soyuz mission will restore the space
station crew size to six and continue normal crew rotations."

Sounds like the Russians have the Soyuz launch vehicle up and running
again.

Unless SpaceX had some desire to play "schedule chicken" with the
Russians restarting Soyuz, I suspect Elon Musk is about as pleased as
anyone concerning this recent development. A depopulated ISS would
have meant no Dragon COTS Flight 2/3 (merged).

There would have been *no* flight, merged or not.

Crew commanding was an objective of COTS Demo 2. Flying COTS 2 would
have meant wasting a spacecraft, since COTS 2 would have been considered
incomplete without the crew commanding objective.

Jorge R. Frank wrote:
On 10/31/2011 04:45 PM, Rick Jones wrote:

Unless SpaceX had some desire to play "schedule chicken" with the
Russians restarting Soyuz, I suspect Elon Musk is about as pleased
as anyone concerning this recent development. A depopulated ISS
would have meant no Dragon COTS Flight 2/3 (merged).

There would have been *no* flight, merged or not.

Crew commanding was an objective of COTS Demo 2. Flying COTS 2 would
have meant wasting a spacecraft, since COTS 2 would have been
considered incomplete without the crew commanding objective.

Even greater happiness and joy at SpaceX then I guess

rick jones
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