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NASA Studying Russian 12-month Plan
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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NASA Studying Russian 12-month Plan
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. -- This is a siggy | To E-mail, do note | Just because something It's properly formatted | who you mean to reply-to | is possible, doesn't No person, none, care | and it will reach me | mean it can happen |
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NASA Studying Russian 12-month Plan
"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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NASA Studying Russian 12-month Plan
In article ,
says... "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. I agree -- and yes, your column was the first place I saw the story that NASA was turning down the Russian plan. I then saw it in two other places (where, I can't recall at the moment), so I decided to just mention "a variety of sources." It's important that you get the credit due, though -- congrats on getting it out first! Doug |
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NASA Studying Russian 12-month Plan
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 "Doug..." wrote in message ... In article , says... "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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NASA Studying Russian 12-month Plan
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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NASA Studying Russian 12-month Plan
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. "Revision" wrote in message ... 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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NASA Studying Russian 12-month Plan
"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 -- Remove "no" and "spam" from email address to reply. If it says "This is not spam!", it's surely a lie. |
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