Russia ready for shuttle rescue

[earth_bound_misfit]

July 28, 2005<br />From: Agence France-Presse <br />Complete news storty here: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16084500-1702,00.html<br /> <br /><br />RUSSIA could send up to three Soyuz rockets to the <br />International Space Station (ISS) between now and February if an evacuation of the ISS crew become necessary due to problems with the US space shuttle Discovery, officials said overnight.<br />"We are ready to send three pilotable Soyuz capsules to the International Space Station by February 2006 should rescue of the Discovery crew be necessary," Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of the Energiya rocket construction firm that builds the Soyuz, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying.<br /><br />Alexei Krasnov, head of the training program with the Russian space agency Roskosmos, said separately, however, that if such an undertaking were necessary the United States would have to bear the costs of the mission, ITAR-TASS said. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------- </p><p>Wanna see this site looking like the old SDC uplink?</p><p>Go here to see how: <strong>SDC Eye saver </strong>  </p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

Hmmm..... The silver lining there might be that it would finally force the government to make an exception in that arms limitation thing so that they could openly pay Russia. (They've been basically bartering with Russia since they're barred from directly buying stuff from them.) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>