Sounds like we are on schedule to have our own spacecraft for that. It was a mistake not have a replacement for the shuttle, instead we got the overly ambitious and costly Orion. I do have a hard time getting worked up over Crimea, true it probably was not 90% of the population that voted for it but nobody disputes that E Ukraine and Crimea consist of mostly ethnic Russians.
With the situation in Crimea/Ukraine I'm starting to wonder how much longer we are going to be able send replacement astronauts to the ISS. It's looking pretty dicey. I think we are still several years away from any new private (or government) manned launch capability to orbit.
I hope we don't end up with a repeat of Skylab.
Clear skies, Dale.
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of BWFlowers Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:33 PM To: 'Utah Astronomy' Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Live broadcast
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Live broadcast of the ISS docking going on now.... -Barrett
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