[RT] NASA officials have said that the International Space Station (ISS) could be left unmanned after a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was forced to make an emergency landing when its rocket booster malfunctioned.The Soyuz rocket launched on Thursday was due to deliver cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and astronaut Nick Hague to the station. The current ISS crew of three people is due to return to earth before January 4, when the Soyuz docked at the space station reaches the end of its safe return lifespan.
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| SpaceX current has at the cape: 1) Three FULLY TESTED and READY TO FLY First Stages, 2) A unknown number > 1 Second Stages and 3)The SpaceX manned flight test capsule ready to go since August. Suggest 1) Shoot up empty now and dock it for emergency egress if the Soyuz fails or 2) Load it with the Paper Work Managers of NASA's for Dragon 2 and launch it to ISS. If it fails the managers can die knowing they were right. If they don't die then it passes. |