Oh is Jerry going to sneak the stuff past DOT and customs and whatever is in place in the EU? I can't wait to see how that works out.
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Jul 19, 2005
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If you look at the USSR/Russian space program, the booster they are using to send men to the ISS today is basically the same one they used to launch Sputnik 47 years ago. Twice the US space program has ground to a halt after accidents. Once we did it to ourselves as we switched from pollo to the Shuttle. They've been flying continiously since they started.
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L >>> To reply, there's no internet on Mars (yet)!
You want fries with that?
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L >>> To reply, there's no internet on Mars (yet)!
That is only Because they (USSR / Russia) don't stop to investigate accidents.
This is a topic that gets beaten to death frequenly on the sci.space.* groups. The deadly and near-deadly accident list for Soyuz shows that it is not a safer vehicle than the Shuttle. James Oberg has written extensively about this topic. While Soyuz has been flying 2-3x as long, it's failure list is
2-3x as long.Glen
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