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Congradulations - vitually all of you are qualified.
On 27/11/2011 6:58 AM, Winston_Smith wrote:
Outsourcing the cutting edge technology we invented and pioneered. That lead to hundreds if not thousands of everyday spinoff technologies. Brilliant. Your examples are good but they have along way to go. Unless you see them coming to maturity in just a few years, astronauts we recruit today will be getting pretty long in the tooth. Meanwhile we are passengers on Russian and maybe Chinese flights. Damn, we is da leaders, isn't we? The U.S. space program is more than just healthy, it's booming. Never say "booming" during a rocket launch. Good point on this latter sentence. However, Astronauts are launched regularly to the ISS (aka Space Station), inlcuding Americans. They don't stay with the program forever and must be replaced. Also, SpaceX are due to launch soon (was supposed to be in the next few days, but things have been delayed somewhat) to ISS with Dragon (a spacecraft capable of carrying people. U.S. astronauts will be carried aboard Dragon in the next few years. |
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